SHAKESPEARE

Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson and Dame Sybil Thorndike (1933 Radio)

Series

Stars in Their Courses

Radio broadcast. Dramatic critic James Agate reviews Forbes-Robertson’s and Thorndike’s career on the English stage. The talk is illustrated with extracts from recordings featuring Forbes-Robertson as...

Lewis Waller, Sir Herbert Tree and Arthur Bourchier (1933 Radio)

Series

Stars in Their Courses

Radio broadcast. Dramatic critic James Agate illustrates the history of sixty years of dramatic art on the English stage with recorded extracts from Shakespearean plays. Featuring Lewis Waller as Henry V,...

Macbeth (1931 Radio)

Series

Radio Guild

Director

Vernon Radcliffe

Radio adaptation of Macbeth by Vernon Radcliffe with Florence Malone and Charles Webster as the Macbeths.

Scenes from ‘Macbeth’ (1931 Radio)

Series

Dramatic Reading

Schools radio broadcast. Dramatic reading of scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth with Ralph Richardson and Philip Wade.

Scenes from ‘Macbeth’ (1930 Radio)

Producer

E. A. Harding

Radio broadcast. Scenes from Shakespeare’s tragedy arranged for broadcasting by E. A. Harding and produced by C. Denis Freeman. With Val Gielgud and Martita Hunt as the Macbeths.

Macbeth (1929 Radio)

Series

Play to Schools

Radio broadcast of Shakespeare’s play for schools. With Ethel Lodge, W. Sibbald Malcolm and others. No further information known (12/2007).

Shakespearian Songs and Music (1929 Radio)

aka: ... The Food of Love

Radio broadcast. Incidental music and songs to Shakespeare’s plays sung by David Hutchinson (tenor) and performed by the Wireless Orchestra conducted by John Ansell. Includes music by Sullivan (Overture...

Macbeth (1928 Radio)

Series

Six Tragedies of Shakespeare (An Introduction for the Plain Man)

Radio broadcast. Second in a six-part series of talks by Dover Wilson, introducing Shakespeare’s tragedies to a general audience. This week’s episode focuses on Macbeth.

Macbeth (1928 Radio)

Series

Drama for Schools

Radio schools broadcast of Shakespeare’s tragedy with Wilfred Walter, Charles Mortimer and Dorothy Dayus.

Lena Ashwell Players, The: Scenes from Macbeth (1928 Radio)

Radio broadcast. The Lena Ashwell Players play scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth as performed for the troops in France during the war. With Lena Ashwell as Lady Macbeth and Paget Bowman as Macbeth. Herbert...