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Bloomsbury Group, The (2009)

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 131 minutes), £15.50

The Bloomsbury Group remains of great public interest for its influence on art, literature and politics in the first half of the 20th century. Recordings of this informal association of writers, artists and...

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Caliban Upon Setebos (1948 Radio)

Radio broadcast of Robert Browning’s poetic take on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in which Caliban reflects on life, religion and human nature. The poem is read by Cecil Trouncer.

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Directors in British and Irish Cinema

Date

25 Jun 2014, 08:28

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Directors in British and Irish Cinema edited by Robert Murphy (bfi, 2006), 672 pages, ISBN: 1844571262 (Paperback), £29.99, ISBN: 1844571254 (Hardback), £95.00 About the reviewer: A distinguished...

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Woman’s Hour [23/04/1964] (1964 Radio)

aka: Shakespeare Quiz, A

Series

Woman’s Hour

Radio broadcast. In this instalment of the magazine programme Alan Dent challenges Diana Graves, Irene Thomas and Jonathan Cecil in a Shakespeare quiz.

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Antony and Cleopatra (1930 Radio)

Producer

Cecil A. Lewis

Radio version of the play produced and adapted by C. A. Lewis. With Laura Cowie as Cleopatra, Cecil Ramage as Antony and Douglas Burbidge as Caesar. V.C. Clinton Baddeley acts as narrator. The incidental...

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Serpent of the Nile, The (1940 Radio)

aka: Scenes from Shakespeare’s Tragedy Antony and Cleopatra

Producer

Peter Creswell

A chronicle for radio based on Shakespeare’s play and Plutarch’s Life of Marcus Antonius. Arranged and produced by Peter Creswell with Fay Compton as Cleopatra and Cecil Trouncer as Anthony. Other parts...

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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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Thieves of Mercy (1947 Radio)

Series

Imaginary Conversations

Producer

Rayner Heppenstall

What took place aboard the privateer which captured Hamlet on his way to England? How was it that, on his return to Denmark the melancholy Prince had become a man of energy and resolution? Read’s radio...

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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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Upstart Crow, The (1948 Film)

Director

Cecil H. Williamson

A travelogue of ‘Shakespeare’s country’.

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