Learning on ScreenHenry 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]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 7 July 1960
- Time
- 9.00-10.00pm
- 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
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
Additional details
- Play tags
- historical drama; royalty
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- Uneasy Lies the Head: Henry IV, Part 2 (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: ‘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
- Title
- Radio Times, 22 April 1960 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- cover image; article, p. 3
- Title
- Radio Times, 8 July 1960 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 19
Associated programmes
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