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Madame Tetrazinni Broadcasts

Date released

12 Mar 1925

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1458

NoS ID

079971

Extras

1 film clip

NoS synopsis: The famous singer’s voice is broadcast from London’s radio station 2LO to all the world.

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News and Views of the Theatre [26/09/1923] (1923 Radio)

Series

News and Views of the Theatre

Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon featuring a review of Cymbeline at the New Theatre, London with Sybil Thorndike as Imogen. Haddon recommends the play for being produced "on...

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Wireless Mast at Burnham Beeches

Date released

4 Oct 1923

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1308

NoS ID

079516

Story no

2 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Open air wireless meet at Burnham Beeches. The 2LO staff demonstrate their new technology.

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London’s Strange New Mood

Date released

10 May 1926

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

767-2

NoS ID

130531

Story no

2 / 3

[SUBTITLE]: "Everyone doing things no one did before." Idle passenger trains in a railway yard and a tube station entrance showing the locked gates. Rows of vacant chairs in a park and Rotten Row deserted....

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News and Views of the Theatre [02/01/1924] (1924 Radio)

Series

News and Views of the Theatre

Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon. In his review of Nigel Playfair’s revival of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Haddons praises director William...

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News and Views of the Theatre [05/09/1923] (1923 Radio)

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News and Views of the Theatre

Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon. Among the various stage plays that he praises for their comic qualities, he discusses J. M. Barrie’s ‘Rosalind’. A "comedy of...

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Shakespeare As a Man of Science (1926 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Talk by physiologist Prof. D. Fraser-Harris on Shakespeare as scientist. No further information known (4/2008).

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Shakespeare Birthday Festival, The (1928 Radio)

Radio broadcast of speeches made at the Town Hall in Stratford-upon-Avon to mark Shakespeare’s birthday. Alanson B. Houghton, the American Ambassador, talks about ‘The Immortal Memory of William...

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Shakespeare Day Duologue, A (1928 Radio)

Radio broadcast. According to the Radio Times programme information, this duologue pays tribute to Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, "commemorating two famous men, St. George and Shakespeare". The...

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King Henry the Fifth (1924 Radio)

aka: Henry V Shakespeare Night

Director

A. Corbett-Smith

Two-hour radio adaptation of the play, arranged and directed by A. Corbett-Smith. Cyril Estcourt performs the title role and Haidee Gunn speaks the parts of both Katharine of France and the Chorus. Other...

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