Henry IV

Synopsis: US radio version of Henry IV, the adaptation includes both parts but heavily favours Part 1 and the comic scenes. Produced by Brewster Morgan and narrated by Conway Tearle. Walter Huston as Henry and Humphrey Bogart is Hotspur.
Series: Columbia Shakespeare Cycle
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 23 Aug 1937 at 17:00 (Channel: CBS)
Duration: 60 mins

Producer

Brewster Morgan

Writer

William Shakespeare

Adaptor for Radio

Brewster Morgan

Cast

Walter Huston	King Henry IV
Brian Aherne	Prince Henry (Hal)
Walter Connolly	Sir John Falstaff
May Whitty	Mistress Quickly
Raymond Lawrence	Robert Shallow
Bernard Phillips	2nd Messenger (Messenger)
Bob Downing	2nd Traveller (Traveller)
Charles Emerson	1st Traveller (Traveller)
Edward Broadley	Peto
Eric Snowden	Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Ian MacLaren	Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
Jack Knoche	Herald
Jack Smart	Poins
John Wold	Thomas, Duke of Clarence
May Whitty
Morris Ankrum	Sir Richard Vernon
Norman Ainsley	Gadshill
P.J. Kelly	Sir Walter Blunt
Phillip Terry	Archibald, Earl of Douglas
Stefan Schnabel	Pistol
Stuart Wilson (3)	Sheriff
Thomas Freebairn-Smith	Carrier
Tom Worth	1st Messenger (Messenger)
Victor Rodman	Lord Chief Justice
Victor Rodman	3rd Traveller (Traveller)
Wallace Roberts	Bardolph

Notes: This recording should not be confused as being part of the CBC series of the same name broadcast in 1938.

The 52 page photocopied typescript is in the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Birmingham Shakespeare Library also holds a copy.
Reviews: `Bogart’s performance is altogether praiseworthy, except for a couple of minor stumbles (it was live, after all and under-rehearsed). He has no trouble at all conveying Hotspur in all his vitality. Walter Huston’s diction is flawless’ [John Owen, posting to Shaksper: the Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference, 26 July 1997].

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