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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. King Lear (1939 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Scenes from the play arranged as a sequence for radio broadcasting by Peter Creswell. With Abraham Sofaer in the title role and William Hutchison as narrator.

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  5. Falstaff Goes to War: An Interlude (1939 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Interlude based on scenes from Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, in which Falstaff roisters off to battle. Arranged and produced for radio by Peter Creswell. With D. A. Clarke-Smith as Falstaff.

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  6. King Lear (1938 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    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.

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  7. Rosalind in Arden (1938 Radio)

    aka: Rosalynde in Arden

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Radio play produced and adapted for broadcasting by Peter Creswell. Scenes from Shakespeare’s As You Like It are supplemented by text from Rosalynde by Thomas Lodge, a romance which Shakespeare used as...

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  8. Dark Lady of the Sonnets, The (1938 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Radio play about an imaginary adventure between William Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth. It was originally written in 1910 by George Bernard Shaw in aid of the scheme for a National Theatre. In the play the...

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  9. 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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  10. 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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