Learning on ScreenPopular Excerpts from Shakespeare
- Synopsis
- Radio programme featuring excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays. Actors include John Gielgud as Romeo and Raymond Tafford as Shylock, it offers listeners "an opportunity of hearing some really first-class elocution" Radio Times, 27 February 1925, p. 437). The following Shakespeare scenes are included:
Romeo and Juliet - Balcony Scene (II ii)
The Merchant of Venice - Loan Scene (I iii) and Trial Scene (IV i)
Henry V (V ii)
With musical support by the Snow String Quartet and Dale Smith (baritone), who sings old and modern settings of Shakespearean lyrics. - Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Availability
- No recording made
- Notes
- Broadcast from BBC Chelmsford.
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Elizabethan music; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Credits
- Producer
- R. E. Jeffrey
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Cast
Dorothy Pantling Douglas Ross Frank Randell George Skillan Harold Gambrill Henry Oscar Irene Rooke John Gielgud Joyce Chetwin Raymond Trafford Telma Waldron
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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