SHAKESPEARE

Scenes from Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ (1948 Radio)

Series

Children’s Hour

Producer

Nan MacDonald

In this entertainment programme for children, scenes from Shakespeare’s play were selected and produced as a dramatic reading for radio by Nan Macdonald to help with the Shakespeare set book for School...

Senior English II: Julius Caesar (1947 Radio)

Series

For the Schools

Schools broadcast of two scenes of the play in the BBC ‘Senior English II’ slot. The scenes selected were Act II ii, and Act IV, iii. Adapted for radio by Douglas Allan.

Julius Caesar (1945 Film)

Series

Famous Scenes from Shakespeare

Director

Henry Cass

Producer

Sydney Box

Excerpts produced for a school audience. Shows Mark Antony and Brutus in the Forum following Caesar’s murder (III ii). The London Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Muir Matheson.

Phantom of 42nd Street, The (1945 Film)

Director

Albert Herman

Producer

Albert Herman

Feature film. Theatre critic Tony Wooldrich (O’Brien) and his sidekick cab driver Romeo with a penchant for quoting Shakespeare (Mulhall) investigate a backstage murder apparently linked to Shakespearean...

Dramatic Reading: Hamlet (1945 Radio)

Series

Senior English II

Schools radio broadcast. Dramatic reading of the ghost scenes from Act I of Hamlet.

Tragedy of Julius Caesar, The (1945 Radio)

Director

Herbert Farjeon

Producer

Mary Hope Allen

Radio version of Shakespeare’s play arranged for broadcasting by Herbert Farjeon and produced by Mary Hope Allen. With Carleton Hobbs as Caesar, Godfey Tearle as Antony and Robert Speaight as Brutus....

Orson Welles’s Almanac [15/03/1944] (1944 Radio)

Series

Orson Welles’s Almanac

Director

Orson Welles

Radio variety show broadcast only in California, not nationally. This episode includes an enactment of the quarrel scene from Julius Caesar with Welles as Brutus and Charles Laughton as Cassius.

Gedichte und Monologe (1944 Audio)

aka: Poetry and Monologues

Producer

Ruth Walter

Gramophone recording of actor Stasys Pilka (1898-1976) reciting the Hecuba speech from Hamlet and the Brutus speech from Julius Caesar in Lithuanian.

Julius Caesar (1943 Radio)

Series

Readings from Shakespeare

Director

Andrew Allan

Producer

Nora Alice Frick

Radio series. Educational programme designed to introduce students to Shakespeare’s plays.

Rudy Vallee Show, The [05/03/1942] (1942 Radio)

Series

Rudy Vallee Show, The

Director

Dick Mack

Radio variety show. This episode features John and Lionel Barrymore with John’s daughter, Diana, enacting II ii from Julius Caesar.