Macbeth

Synopsis: Full-length radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play produced by John Tydeman. Paul Scofield and Peggy Ashcroft star as the Macbeths. With music composed by John Buckland and played by the Ad hoc ensemble, conducted by Eric Wetherell.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Recording date: 27 Mar 1966
Transmission details: 29 Apr 1966 at 20:00 (Channel: BBC Third Programme)
Duration: 120 (incl. interval)

History: There was a ten-minute interval at 21:05. The broadcast was repeated on 22/5/1966.
Stills: A still of Scofield and Redgrave in front of the microphone can be found in Radio Times issue listing this programme.
Reviews: 'Getting Across the Inwardness of Macbeth’, The Times, 30 April 1966, p. 5.

Paul Scofield	Macbeth
Peggy Ashcroft	Lady Macbeth
Alec McCowen	Macduff
David Westen	Malcolm
John Westbrook	Banquo
Allan McClelland	Lord
Brian Hewlett	Donalbain
Cecile Chevraeau	Gentlewoman
Fraser Kerr	Angus
Glyn Dearman	Fleance
Glyn Dearman	Young Siward
Grizelda Hervey	Witch (1st)
Henry Stamper	Old Man
Henry Stamper	Seyton
Jane Wenham	Lady Macduff
John Dearth	Captain
John Hollis	Siward, Earl of Northumberland
John Hollis	Murderer (1st)
John Humphry	Lennox
John Justin	Ross
Mary O’Farrell	Witch (2nd)
Nicholas Charles	Macduff’s son
Noel Howlett	Doctor of Physic
Preston Lockwood	Caithness
Stephen Thorne (2)	Menteith
Stephen Thorne (2)	Murderer (2nd)
Sylvia Coleridge	Witch (3rd)
Timothy West	Porter
Walter Fitzgerald	King Duncan

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