SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

British radio sketch show with Brenda Blethyn and Robert Bathurst. Episode 2 includes a three-minute skit on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. ‘Macbash’, a BBC/Beano collaboration, as the fictional radio presenter announces, is part of a series ‘Introducing Literary Classics to the Younger Listener’, the BBC in collaboration with Beano (a classic British comic) presents ‘Macbash’. Opening with the witches indecisive as to whether they should meet in a chip shop, caf or den, it ends with Macduff beating up Macbash with a wacking slipper and the editor’s voice apologetically pronouncing the rest "too horrible to show".

Series

Dial M for Pizza

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Radio

Transmission details

24 Nov 1987 (Channel: BBC Radio 4)

Credits

Producer

Paul Mayhew-Archer

Writer

Ian Brown; James Hendrie

Cast

Brenda Blethyn	Bessie Macbash (Lady Macbeth)
Jonathan Kydd
Mike Grady
Robert Bathurst

Additional Details

Production type

Sitcoms/Variety

Plays

Macbeth

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

General

DIAL M FOR PIZZA is a British radio sketch show which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the late 1980s, written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie.

History

Episode 2 of the first series was originally broadcast from 17 November - 22 December 1987 on BBC Radio 4. The second series followed in 1988.

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