Touchstone and Audrey

Synopsis: Radio broadcast on an excerpt from the play which - as cast list and title suggest - focuses on Act V. Arranged for radio by Herbert Farjeon. With Leslie Stokes as speaker.
Series: Radio Theatre: Shakespeare’s Characters
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 4 Jun 1944 at 16:30 (Channel: BBC General Forces Programme)
Duration: 30 mins

Producer

Mary Hope Allen

Writer

William Shakespeare

Contributor

Leslie Stokes

Adaptor for Radio

Herbert Farjeon

Cast

Notes: Radio scripts of all the original 18 episodes in the series are being held at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection.
General: According to the programme notes in London Calling, "Mr. Farjeon had always been interested in the big figures among the secondary characters in Shakespeare’s plays. In this series he expands upon their personalities, illustrating his theories by some of the scenes in which these characters appear" (No. 302: 1945, p. 20)
History: Episode 12 of the series. The programme was also transmitted on the External Service on the following dates and regions:
06 June 1944 - African
07 June 1944 - Pacific
08 June 1944 - N. American
Textual information: A script of a repeat of this production broadcast with a different cast is part of the Shakespeare Collection at the Birmingham Central Reference Library. It was broadcast on the Home Service on 14/4/1946. Doulas Cleverdon is here credited as producer, with Richard Goolden as Touchstone and Vida Hope as Audrey.
Reviews: Annotated radio scripts of all the 18 episodes in the series are being held at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection.

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