Macbeth (1949 Radio)

Producer

Wilfrid Grantham

Full-length radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced by Wilfrid Grantham. The script of the broadcast has been edited by M. R. Ridley. With Stephen Murray, Flora Robson and Leon Quartermaine....

Othello (1949 Radio)

Producer

Val Gielgud

Full-length radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced by Val Gielgud. The script of the broadcast has been edited by M. R. Ridley who also introduces the broadcast. With Jack Hawkins, Margaret...

Macbeth (1949 Radio)

Short radio programme showcasing some of William Walton’s incidental music for Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Macbeth - A Tragedy of Ambition (1949 Radio)

Series

Introducing Shakespeare

Fifth in a series of six Forces Educational Broadcasts devoted to introducing Shakespeare to the general listener. J. B. Bamborough gives an illustrated talk of the play.

Macbeth (1949 Radio)

Scenes from Verdi’s opera (Act I ii; Act II, Scenes i-iii) performed in Italian. Mario Rossi conducts the Chorus and the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Turin. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

Orson Welles’ Macbeth Restored (1948 Film)

aka: Macbeth (1948)

Director

Orson Welles

Producer

Orson Welles

Feature film adaptation of the Welles’s B-movie production. The video and DVDs are fully restored versions of Orson Welles’ MACBETH, based on his Mercury Theatre production.

Macbeth (1948 Film)

Trailer for Orson Welles’ MACBETH (1948).

Theatre Programme [06/02/1948] (1948 Radio)

aka: Dissecting a Play

Series

Theatre Programme

A fortnightly theatre review programme. In this episode a panel of experts examines Shakespeare’s tragedy with illustrated extracts. The panel consists of Michael Redgrave, Frank Birch, and Philip...

Scenes from Twelfth Night and Macbeth (1948 Television)

Series

For the Children

Director

Robert Atkins; Michael Barry

BBC schools broadcast in which actor-manager Robert Atkins directs a group of students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in scenes from Twelfth Night and Macbeth (see notes). The programme is meant to...

"Macbeth" Lecture by J. Dover Wilson (1947 Radio)

Shakespeare scholar and editor J. Dover Wilson delivers a lecture on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. When he gave this talk, Dover Wilson had just completed his nine-months study of the play.