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  • Julius Caesar (Act I, Scene II) (1925 Radio)

    aka: Charm of Variety VI, The

    Series
    Charm of Variety, The

    Radio broadcast. Actor Ivor Maddox performs "Cassius’ Denunciation of Caesar to Brutus" (Act 1, Scene 2) from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

  • Bluebeard’s Seven Wives (1925 Film)

    Director
    Alfred Santell

    Feature film comedy about a former bank clerk (Lyons) who takes a job as a film extra and is accidentally made a star by a famous director and becomes a victim of the studio’s publicity machine. A satire...

  • Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse (1925 Radio)

    Radio broadcast. Provost Erskine Hill reads passages from King Lear (IV vii), Julius Caesar (III ii), Twelfth Night (IV ii), Henry IV, Part 1 (II iv) at the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse.

  • Hamlet (1924 Radio)

    Producer
    Sydney Russell

    Radio adaptation of the play arranged and produced by Sydney Russell who also plays the title role.

  • Othello (1924 Radio)

    Act III of Verdi’s opera relayed from The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.

  • King Henry the Fifth (1924 Radio)

    aka: Henry V Shakespeare Night

    Director
    A. Corbett-Smith

    Two-hour radio adaptation of the play, arranged and directed by A. Corbett-Smith. Cyril Estcourt performs the title role and Haidee Gunn speaks the parts of both Katharine of France and the Chorus. Other...

  • Shakespeare Night [18/11/1924] (1924 Radio)

    Shakespeare-themed radio programme. Orchestral music, mainly by Mendelssohn, Germain and Sullivan, with old and modern settings of Shakespearean lyrics followed by passages from The Taming of the Shrew....

  • Shakespeare and His England [23/4/1924] (1924 Radio)

    aka: St. George for Merrie England

    The radio programme commemorating Shakespeare’s birth comprises a reading about "Shakespeare And His England", a performance of King Henry V, Act V, Scene ii and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, scene...

  • Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson on ‘Shakespeare’ (1924 Radio)

    Third in a series of experimental radio transmissions of school broadcasts that at the time were received by about 100 schools. In this week’s episode, the actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson talks about...

  • Shakespeare Birthday Performance of ‘Othello,' The Moor of Venice. (1924 Radio)

    aka: Shakespeare Evening

    Director
    William Macready

    Part of a ‘Shakespeare Evening’ on BBC Birmingham, the two-hour radio broadcast of the play was arranged and directed by William Macready. Macready himself plays the title role with Edna Godfrey Turner...