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  1. Timon of Athens (1953 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Watts

    Heavily cut radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted and produced for broadcasting by Peter Watts. With Valentine Dyall in the title role. The chronicler (narrator) in this adaptation is Neanthes of...

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  2. Tempest, The (1952 Radio)

    Producer
    Raymond Raikes

    Radio version of Shakespeare’s late play adapted and produced for radio by Raymond Raikes. With Peter Ustinov as Caliban, Leon Quartermaine as Prospero and Marjorie Westbury as Ariel. Music composed and...

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  3. Antony and Cleopatra (1951 Film)

    Feature film. A heavily abridged version of the play with emphasis on the scenes between Antony and Cleopatra. Much of the political plot and some of Enorbarbus’ lines are omitted. A narrator explains...

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  4. Julius Caesar (1951 Film)

    Feature film. Heavily abridged version of the play for schools concentrating mainly on the first part from the Festival of the Games to Mark Antony’s funeral oration. Many of the dialogues between Cassius...

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  5. Winter’s Tale, The (1951 Radio)

    Producer
    E. A. Harding

    Radio version of Shakespeare’s play arranged for broadcasting and produced by E. A. Harding. Told in three parts. With Stephen Murray as Leontes and Elspeth March as Hermione. Music composed and conducted...

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  6. Caliban Upon Setebos (1948 Radio)

    Radio broadcast of Robert Browning’s poetic take on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in which Caliban reflects on life, religion and human nature. The poem is read by Cecil Trouncer.

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  7. Thieves of Mercy (1947 Radio)

    Series
    Imaginary Conversations
    Producer
    Rayner Heppenstall

    What took place aboard the privateer which captured Hamlet on his way to England? How was it that, on his return to Denmark the melancholy Prince had become a man of energy and resolution? Read’s radio...

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  8. King Henry V (1942 Radio)

    Producer
    Howard Rose

    Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced and adapted by Howard Rose. With Laurence Olivier in the title role. James Dale is the narrator.

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  9. Rosalynde in Arden (1941 Radio)

    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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  10. 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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