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Friends, Romans, Countrymen

Synopsis
Second in a six-part radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra directed by Dickon Reed. With Peter Whitman as narrator, Paul Hardwick as Julius Caesar and Edward Hardwicke as Brutus. Part 2 focuses on Marc Antony’s famous appeal to the citizens of Rome.
Series
Noble Romans, The
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Radio
Availability
Unknown
Notes
According to programme notes, Reed used Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Romans to provide introductions for each episode and to link passages between scenes. There has been little textual editing (op. cit.).
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Credits

Director
Dickon Reed
Writer
Plutarch; William Shakespeare
Cast
Alan Penn 
Brian Carroll 
Brian Haines 
Edward Hardwicke 
Eva Stuart 
Fred Bryant 
Garard Green 
Geoffrey Beevers 
Geoffrey Matthews 
Ian Hogg 
Jean Rogers 
Julian Fox 
Martin Jarvis 
Neville Jason 
Paul Hardwick 
Peter Whitman 
Peter Woodthorpe 
Philip Sully 
Phillip Fox 
Robert French 
Roy Dotrice 
Sheila Allen 

Production Company

Name

BBC World Service

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