As You Like It

Synopsis

Radio version of Shakespeare’s play, adapted and produced by Peter Creswell with contemporary music arranged and additional settings composed by Julian Herbage. William Fox stars as Orlando, Gwen Frangcon-Davies is Rosalind. Musicians include Rudolph, Natalie, Millicent and Carl Dolmetsch, the Wireless Singers and Diana Poulton (Lute). Julian Herbage conducts.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Radio

Availability

No copy extant

Notes

R.S. Littlewood reviews the broadcast and suggests why it does justice to the play in "'Heavenly Rosalind’ Takes the Air", Radio Times 42:545, 9 March 1934, p. 708.

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Credits

Producer

Peter Creswell

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Julian Herbage

Contributor

Julian Herbage

Adaptor for Radio

Peter Creswell

Cast

Edgar B. Skeet
Eric Berry
Ernest Sefton
Ethel Lodge
Evelyn Neilson
Felix Aylmer
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Jack Melford
James Tovey
John Jacques
Lila Maravan
Marjorie Smith
Nigel Clarke
Pascoe Thornton
Patrick Waddington
Peter Vokes
Philip Wade
Robert Craven
Theodore Smythe
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley
Walter Herbage
William Fox

Production Company

Name

BBC

Notes

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)