Henry IV, Part 2: Uneasy Lies the Head

Summary: 1960 BBC production of Henry IV, Part 2: Uneasy Lies the Head by Shakespeare, the sixth 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 2 by William Shakespeare [more information]
Play synopsis: 'Its focus is on Prince Hal’s journey toward kingship, and his ultimate rejection of Falstaff’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_2).
Production history: Written in the late 16c.
Date of transmission: Thursday 7 July 1960
Time: 9.00-10.00pm
Series: Age of Kings
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Director

Michael Hayes

Producer

Peter Dews

Playwright

William Shakespeare

Composer

Arthur Bliss (title music)

Composer

Christopher Whelen

Designer

Stanley Morris

Cast

Geoffrey Bayldon	Lord Chief Justice
Adrian Brine	unnamed part
George A. Cooper	Ancient Pistol
Michael Graham Cox	Davy
Kenneth Farrington	Earl of Warwick
Tom Fleming	King Henry the Fourth
Patrick Garland	Prince John of Lancaster
Tony Garnett	unnamed part
Julian Glover	Earl of Westmorland
Gordon Gostelow	Bardolph
John Greenwood	Thomas of Clarence
Robert Hardy	Henry, Prince of Wales, afterwards Henry the Fifth
Timothy Harley	unnamed part
Dane Howell	Page to Falstaff
Noel Johnson	Thomas Mowbray
Robert Lang	Lord Hastings
Terence Lodge	Mouldy
Frank Pettingell	Sir John Falstaff
John Ringham	Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
Alan Rowe	Harcourt
John Murray Scott	unnamed part
Leon Shepperdson	Shadow
Brian Smith	Feeble
William Squire	Shallow; Epilogue
Anthony Valentine	Groom
Terry Wale	Wart
Derek Ware	Groom
John Warner	Silence
Frank Windsor	Bullcalf
Edgar Wreford	The Archibishop of York

Title: Uneasy Lies the Head: Henry IV, Part 2 (BBC, 1960)
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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

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: ‘uneasy lies the head’ (Blog article)
Author/creator: John Wyver (Author)
Reference: http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/an-age-of-kings-uneasy-lies-the-head, published 30 July 2009

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