Sword Against Sword

Synopsis: Fifth in a six-part radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra directed by Dickon Reed. With Peter Whitman as narrator, Roy Dotrice as Antony and Maxine Audley as Cleopatra.
Part 5 of the series focuses on Antony’s reconciliation with Octavius through his marriage to Octavia.
Series: Noble Romans, The
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Recording date: 19 Jun 1979
Transmission details: 1 Dec 1979 at 18:30 (Channel: BBC World Service)
Duration: 60 mins

Notes: According to programme notes, Reed used Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Romans to provide introductions for each episode and to link passages between scenes. There has been little textual editing (op. cit.).
History: London Calling (op.cit.) claims that this is the first time that Shakespeare’s two Roman plays have been presented in this way. The series ‘The Noble Romans’ was originally transmitted in six 60-minute episodes on the BBC World Service English network.
Reviews: Source: London Calling, December 1979, p.10.

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Roy Dotrice	Mark Antony
Maxine Audley	Cleopatra
Martin Jarvis	Octavius Caesar
Phillip Fox	Sextus Pompey
Peter Jeffrey	Enobarbus
Brian Carroll	Eros
Candida Fawsitt	Iras
David Strong	Dolabella
Ellis Jones	Clown
Fred Bryant	Dercetus
Garard Green	Lepidus
Geoffrey Beevers	Messenger (3) (Messenger)
Geoffrey Matthews	Soothsayer
Hugh Dickson	Maecenas
Julian Fox	Messenger (2) (Messenger)
Michael Bilton	Schoolmaster
Michael McStay	Menas
Oliver Ford Davies	Ventidius
Penelope Lee	Octavia
Peter Craze	Thidias
Peter Pacey	Cleopatra’s Messenger (Messenger)
Peter Whitman	Alexas
Peter Whitman	Narrator
Peter Wickham	Agrippa
Philip Sully	Philo
Richard Derrington	Diomedes
Robert French	Demetrius
Rosalind Ayres	Charmian
Sean Barrett	Proculeius
Walter Hall	Mardian

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