Learning on ScreenHenry IV, Part 1: The Road to Shrewsbury
- Summary
- 1960 BBC production of Henry IV, Part 1: The Road to Shrewsbury by Shakespeare, the fourth in the fifteen-part series An Age of Kings which was the BBC’s great national pageant of eight history plays.
- Theatre play
- Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 9 June 1960
- Time
- 8.45-10.00pm
- Series
- Age of Kings
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Director
- Michael Hayes
- Producer
- Peter Dews
- Playwright
- William Shakespeare
- Composer
- Arthur Bliss (title music)
- Composer
- Christopher Whelen
- Designer
- Stanley Morris
- Cast
David Andrews Edmund Mortimer Angela Baddeley Mistress Quickly Geoffrey Bayldon Thomas Percy Jeremy Bisley unnamed part Sean Connery Harry Percy Michael Graham Cox unnamed part Kenneth Farrington Sir Michael Andrew Faulds Archibald Tom Fleming King Henry the Fourth Patrick Garland John of Lancaster Valerie Gearon Lady Mortimer Julian Glover Earl of Westmorland Gordon Gostelow Bardolph John Greenwood unnamed part Robert Hardy Henry, Prince of Wales Timothy Harley unnamed part Patricia Heneghan Lady Percy Terence Lodge unnamed part Frank Pettingell Sir John Falstaff Alan Rowe Sir Richard Vernon John Murray Scott unnamed part Terry Scully unnamed part Leon Shepperdson unnamed part Brian Smith unnamed part William Squire Owen Glendower Anthony Valentine Messenger Terry Wale unnamed part Derek Ware unnamed part Jerome Willis unnamed part Frank Windsor Sir Walter Blunt Edgar Wreford Richard Scroop
Additional details
- Play tags
- historical drama; royalty
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- The Road to Shrewsbury: Henry IV, Part 1 (BBC, 1960)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
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- Title
- An Age of Kings: Eight History Plays by William Shakespeare
- Commercial availability
- Released in 2013 by Illuminations in the Screen Plays series
Print sources
- Title
- Adapting the Histories: An Age of Kings on Screen (Essay)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- Published as the booklet essay accompanying the commercially available DVD set An Age of Kings: Eight History Plays by William Shakespeare, released by Illuminations in the Screen Plays series.
- Title
- An Age of Kings: ‘die all, die merrily’ (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/an-age-of-kings-die-all-die-merrily, published 22 July 2009
- Title
- Radio Times, 22 April 1960 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- cover image; article, p. 3
- Title
- Radio Times, 3 June 1960 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 15
Associated programmes
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