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  1. 'Summer Theatre’ Presents: Will Shakespeare (1947 Radio)

    aka: An Invention

    Series
    Summer Theatre
    Producer
    Peter Watts

    Radio adaptation of the play which was originally written for the stage by British playwright Clemence Dane (1888-1965). The plot links Shakespeare and the ‘Dark Lady’ of the sonnets with the mysterious...

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  2. Theatre Programme [13/11/1946] (1946 Radio)

    Series
    Theatre Programme (Second Series)
    Producer
    Ayton Whitaker

    First of the second series of the fortnightly theatrical review magazine commissioned for radio by the BBC Light Programme. Includes recordings of extracts from The English Arts Theatre company’s...

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  3. Romeo and Juliet (1944 Radio)

    Producer
    Mary Hope Allen

    Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play arranged for broadcasting by Herbert Farjeon, produced by Mary Hope Allen. With Fay Compton and David King-Wood in the title roles.

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  4. In Belmont is a Lady (1941 Radio)

    aka: A Romantic Chronicle from Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Radio broadcast. Scenes from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice are arranged and produced by Peter Creswell. Starring Fay Compton as Portia, Malcolm Keen as Shylock and other members of the BBC Drama...

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  5. Taming of the Shrew, The (1941 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Radio version of Shakespeare’s comedy, arranged for broadcasting and produced by Peter Creswell. The cast includes Fay Compton as Kate and Godfrey Tearle as Petruchio. No further information available...

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  6. Romeo and Juliet (1941 Radio)

    Producer
    Val Gielgud

    Radio broadcast. A sequence from Shakespeare’s play arranged by Hugh Stewart with narrative taken from Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare. Fay Compton and Marius Goring perform the title roles.

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  7. Serpent of the Nile, The (1940 Radio)

    aka: Scenes from Shakespeare’s Tragedy Antony and Cleopatra

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    A chronicle for radio based on Shakespeare’s play and Plutarch’s Life of Marcus Antonius. Arranged and produced by Peter Creswell with Fay Compton as Cleopatra and Cecil Trouncer as Anthony. Other parts...

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  8. Much Ado About Nothing (1937 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Abridged version of the play arranged and produced for radio by Peter Creswell. With Fay Compton as Beatrice and Godfrey Tearle as Benedick.

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  9. All for Love or, The World Well Lost (1937 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Radio version of Dryden’s play of the same name (1678). Based on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Dryden’s blank verse take on the story focuses on the clash between the personal and political. In...

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  10. Cymbeline King of Britain (1935 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Abridged radio version of the play, arranged for broadcasting and produced by Peter Creswell. Fay Compton stars as Imogen, Leon Quartermaine as Iachimo and William Fox as Posthumus. The Serenade is sung by...

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