SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Radio programme featuring excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays. Actors include John Gielgud as Romeo and Raymond Tafford as Shylock, it offers listeners "an opportunity of hearing some really first-class elocution" Radio Times, 27 February 1925, p. 437). The following Shakespeare scenes are included:
Romeo and Juliet - Balcony Scene (II ii)
The Merchant of Venice - Loan Scene (I iii) and Trial Scene (IV i)
Henry V (V ii)
With musical support by the Snow String Quartet and Dale Smith (baritone), who sings old and modern settings of Shakespearean lyrics.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Radio

Transmission details

3 Mar 1925 at 19:30 (Channel: BBC)

Duration

110 mins

Availability

No recording made

Credits

Producer

R. E. Jeffrey

Writer

William Shakespeare

Cast

Raymond Trafford	Shylock
Frank Randell	Antonio
Henry Oscar	Bassanio
Joyce Chetwin	Portia
Irene Rooke	Nurse
Dorothy Pantling	Nerissa
George Skillan	Duke of Venice
Harold Gambrill	Salerio
Telma Waldron

Additional Details

Production type

Other

Plays

Henry V; Merchant of Venice, The; Romeo and Juliet

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Elizabethan music; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

Broadcast from BBC Chelmsford.

Reviews

Source: The Times, Radio Times

Production Company

Name

BBC

Notes

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)