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Excerpts from ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1929 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Excerpts from Shakespeare’s play performed by Stuart Vinden, Wortley Allen and others. Incidental music played by the Midland Pianoforte Sextet. No further information known (12/2007).

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English Literature III: Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ And Songs from the Play (1929 Radio)

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For the Schools

Radio schools broadcast. Eight-part talk held by R. E. Sopwith principally intended for pupils from 12-14 years of age. While the first 3 talks focus on analysis of the play, the last 2 talks consider...

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My Programme (1928 Radio)

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Children’s Hour

Radio broadcast. Excerpts from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are performed by Lady Tree, wife of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, as part of a programme for children. Felicity Tree sings and Victor...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1928 Radio)

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Plays to Schools

Schools broadcast of Shakespeare’s play.

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Ellen Terry - A Programme in Honour of Her Eightieth Birthday (1928 Radio)

Special radio programme broadcast in honour of actress Ellen Terry’s 80th birthday. Introductory remarks are by James Agate. The programme is made up of performances of extracts from plays by Shakespeare...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1927 Radio)

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Howard Rose; R. E. Jeffrey

Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play produced by Howard Rose and R. E. Jeffrey, starring Robert Atkins as Bottom. Mendelssohn’s incidental music is performed by the Wireless Chorus and Symphony...

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English Literature III: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1927 Radio)

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Broadcast to Schools

Radio broadcast. Five-part talk held by R. E. Sopwith for secondary schools which together constitutes a study on Shakespeare’s comedy.

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Old Fairy Tales in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1927 Radio)

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Schools: How Shakespeare Used Old Stories

Radio broadcast for schools. In this English Literature series, I. M. Pagan identifies old folklore tales that are interwoven in various Shakespeare plays. This episode focuses on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Excerpts from a Performance of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1926 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Extracts from the Oxford University Dramatic Society performance of Shakespeare’s play are relayed from Magdalen College Grove, Oxford.

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Famous Love Scenes [28/01/1926] (1926 Radio)

As part of a mixed radio programme showcasing famous love scenes from music and literature, Hesketh Pearson and Mary O’Farrell perform excerpts from Romeo and Juliet (II ii), Richard III (I ii), and A...

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