Synopsis

Radio drama. Troilus and Cressida produced by David Spenser with Michael Pennington and Maureen O’Brien in the title roles.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Radio

Recording date

8 Dec 1979

Transmission details

6 Mar 1980 at 21:05 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)

Duration

210 (inc. 15 min interval)

Credits

Producer

David Spenser

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Christos Pittas

Cast

Michael Pennington	Troilus
Maureen O’Brien	Cressida
Alan Howard	Thersites
Nigel Stock	Pandarus
Norman Rodway	Ulysses
Brian Carroll	Servant (attending on Paris)
David Buck	Ajax
Gabriel Woolf	Agamemnon
Gordon Dulieu	Aeneas
Gordon Reid	Alexander
Graham Faulkner	Helenus
Jeremy Clyde	Paris
John Bull	Patroclus
John Rye	Achilles
John Westbrook	Calchas
John Westbrook	Prologue
Lee Harrington	Deiphobus
Leonard Fenton	Priam, King of Troy
Peter Baldwin (2)	Menelaus
Petra Davies	Helen
Philip Sully	Diomedes
Sheila Grant	Cassandra
Sonia Fraser	Andromache
Stephen Shaw	Nestor
Terrence Hardiman	Hector
Trevor Cooper	Margareton

Additional Details

Production type

Television and Radio Drama

Plays

Troilus and Cressida

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Reviews

Source: Radio Times, The Times
Brief review in Michael P. Jensen, ‘Entries Play by Play’ in Richard Burt (ed.), Shakespeare after Shakespeare: An Encyclopaedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture, Vol. 2 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007), p. 575, Entry 2584.

Production Company

Name

BBC

Notes

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Archive

Name

British Library Sound Archive

Email

listening@bl.uk

Web

http://www.bl.uk/nsa External site opens in new window

Phone

020 7412 7676

Fax

020 7412 7441

Address

96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB