Learning on ScreenKing Lear
- Synopsis
- Shakespeare’s play (without the subplot but with an extra story teller) arranged as a sequence for broadcasting and produced by Peter Creswell. With Godfrey Tearle in the title role.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Transmission details
- 15 May 1938 at 17:50 (Channel: BBC National Programme)
- Duration
- 120 mins
- Availability
- No copy extant
Credits
- Producer
- Peter Creswell
- Writer
- Peter Creswell
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Television and Radio Drama
- Plays
- King Lear
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- A written transcript of the production is held at the Birmingham Central Library as part of their Shakespeare Collection.
- Textual information
- The sub-plot, and with it the characters of Edgar and Edmund, were cut in this production, a revolutionary measure that did not go down too well with the listeners. See Radio Times, 13 May 1938, p. 20.
- Reviews
- One listener complained about the "music-hall technique" of the production, pointing out that "tom-tommings, guffawings, and piano-tinkering were very uncalled for" in an adaptation of Shakespearean tragedy (Radio Times, 10 June 1938, p. 9).
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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