Shakespeare, William

Last Edited: 23-Oct-2011 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
Location
Status
03-Dec-2005
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
David Threlfall, Sylvestre le Touzel, Samuel West, Amanda
Root, Nick Bagnell, Kathryn Hunt, Richard Griffitths, Don
McBride, Derek Wormsley, Peter Sallis, Andy Cryer, Malcolm
Hebden, Becky Simpson, William Haig, Thomas Pinner,
Holly Grainger
Directed by Susan Roberts
117:19, 109998, S
PC D/L
G(
26-Nov-2005
The Taming of the Shrew
Bob Peck, Cheryl Campbell, Moira Lesley, Lawrence Paine,
Stephen Tomkinson, Robert Glenister, Christopher Fairbank,
Paul Copley, Douglas Hobbs, Michael Deakin, Anthony Jackson,
William Simons, Linda Poulan, John Baddiley, Simon Cuff,
Richard Pearce, Stephen Rashbrook
Directed and adapted by Jeremy Mortimer
118: 13, 110842, S
PC D/L
G(
23-Apr-1966
R7:
06-Oct-2007
Macbeth
Paul Scofield, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec McCowen, David Weston,
John Justin, John Westbrook, Timothy West, Walter Fitzgerald,
Griselda Harvey, Marie O’Farrell, Sylvia Coleridge, Jane
Wenham, Nicholas Charles, John Dearth, John Humphrey,
Fraser Kerr, Glyn Dearman, Brian Hewlett, John Hollis,
Stephen Thorne, Noel Howlett, Cecile Chevreau,
Preston Lockwood
Produced by John Tydeman
133:51, 125489, S
PC D/L
G(
09-Oct-2011
16-Oct-2011
23-Oct-2011
Macbeth

Nicholas Garsden, Ksenja Logos, David Millor, Paul Blackwell,
Adam Twilmenham, Elinor Kalapetis, Kate Wadey, Caitlin
Machinner, Jeff Revel, Mac Russell, Nicholas Martin,
Karen McNamara, Michael Hill, Michael Habit, Curt Murray,
Rowan Hopkins, Matt Russell
Sound Engineer Tom Henry
Producer Christopher Williams

commentary
19:33, 18295, S
performance
42:20, 39613, S
50:00, 46782, S
48:45, 45616, S 
ABC RN G(
BBC WS
1979
Radio 7
12-Jul-2004
to
19-Jul-2004
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05-Feb-2005
to
12-Mar-2005
The Noble Romans
An adaptation from Julius Caesar
and Antony and Cleopatra
Paul Hardwick, Roy Detrise, Edward Hardwick, Ian Hogg,
Peter Woodthorpe, Sheila Allen, Eva Stuart, Garrard Greene,
Alan Penn, Julian Fox, Geoffrey Matthews, Jean Rodgers,
Neville Jason, Peter Wittman, Martin Jarvis, Phillip Fox,
Fred Bryant, Brian Carroll, Brian Haines, Geoffrey Beavers,
Maxine Audley, Peter Geoffrey, Phillip Sully, Robert French,
Candida Fawcett, Rosalind Ayres, Peter Wickham, Hugh Dixon,
Penelope Lee, Michael McStay, Peter Pacey, Walter Hall,
Michael Bilton, Peter Crays, Peter Dixon, Oliver Ford-Davis,
David Strong
Adapted and Directed by Dickon Reid
58:58, 55294, S
59:07, 55438, S
58:50, 55160, S
55:57, 52455, S
59:06, 55414, S
58:46, 55096, S
BBC 7 web
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BBC WS
Radio 7
20-Jul-2004
to
23-Jul-2004
26-Jul-2004
27-Jul-2004
Cry God for Harry
An adaptation from Henry IV,
Parts 1 and 2 and Henry V
Robert Lang, Alan Howard, Brewster Mason, Peter Egen,
Donald Huston, David Buck, Susan Thomas, Maurice Denham,
Michael Godfrey, John Hollis, John Bull, Patricia Hayes,
Bernard Gallaher, David Horovich, Tony McEwen, Stephen
Thorne, Joe Dunlop, Victoria Plucknit, Christopher Saul,
David Strom, Brenda Bruce, Hugh Dixon, Garrick Hagen,
Nigel Lambert, Jack May, Clifford Norgate, Peter Geoffrey,
Sean Barrett, Carleton Hobbs, Richard Derrington, Michael
Redgrave, Gavin Campbell, John Westbrook, Kevin Flood,
John Rye, David March, Sam Dustor, Christopher Binead,
Hayden Jones, Anthony Hall, Michael Harbour, Carol Russo,
Christopher Picknead
Adapted and Directed by Dickon Reid
57:12, 53634, S
58:52, 55192, S
56:14, 52723, S
58:05, 55229, S
58:51, 55184, S
58:50, 55161, S
BBC 7 web
G(
14-Nov-2005
to
18-Nov-2005
Shakespeare Stories
  1. Othello from Italian writer Gerald Cinthio's Hecatommithi
  2. The Winter’s Tale from Robert Greene's prose romance Pandosto
  3. Measure for Measure from George Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra
  4. Macbeth from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Wales
  5. Romeo and Juliet from
  6. Arthur Brooke's The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet
Read by Simon Russell Beale, Gerard Murphy, Claire Skinner,
Stephen Boxer, Prunella Scales
Abridged by Gordon House
Directed by Claudine Toutoungi
13:24, 6288, m
13:55, 6527, m
13:43, 6434, m
13:32, 6346, m
14:04, 6595, S
BBC 4 web
G(
20-Oct-2005
Faking the Classics – Shakespeare
Jonathan Bate
Produced by Sarah Jane Hall
28:10, 26412, S
BBC 4 web
G(
26-Dec-2006
King Lear on Boxing Day
Francine Stock, Fiona Shaw, Oliver Ford Davis, Jonathan Bate,
Richard Dutton, Brett Dolman, Tiffany Stern, Ivan Day
musicians Passamezzo
produced by Beattie Rubens
87:35, 82112, S
BBC 4 web
G(
13-Aug-2007
to
17-Aug-2007
Macbeth Remixed
Liam Brennan, Fiona Watson, Alex Wolfe
Written by Chris Dolan
Produced by Penny Latin
14:18, 13415, S
14:05, 13219, S
14:06, 13229, S
14:04, 13203, S
14:26, 13538, S
BBC 4 web
G(
28-Oct-2007
Adventures in Poetry – Portia's speech in
defence of Antonio in the Merchant of Venice
Peggy Reynolds, Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips, Helena Kennedy QC, Lisa Jardine, rabbi Julia Neuberger,
Janet Suzman
Produced by Sarah Davies
27:56, 26200, S
BBC 4 web
G(
31-Oct-2009

Richard III

Ian Holm, Tom Wilkinson, Barbara Jefford, Sarah Baddell,
Melinda Walker, Pauline Letts, Philip Voss, Brett Usher,
Michael Garham Cox, Bernard Brown, David Garth, David
Learner, Brian Smith, Stephen Thorne, Simon Hewitt, William
Buckhurst, Matthew Carroll, Graham Blockey, John Church,
Christopher Douglas, Adrian Eagan, Steve Hodson, James
Macpherson, Trevor Nichols, Sean Prendergast, Jamie Roberts,
David Sinclair, Robin Summers, Alan Thompson
directed by Jane Morgan
149:09, 139835, S BBC R4 PC D/L G
27-Feb-2010 Othello

Conrad Nelson, Matt Connor, Geoff Leesley, Lenny Henry,
Richard Standing, David Beckford, Simon Holland Roberts,
Jessica Harris, Andy Cryer, Sara Poyzer, Chris Pearse,
Victoria Gee
Directed by Barrie Rutter

118:03, 110675, S BBC R4 G
R4:
1993
R7:
06-Jan-2011
Twelfth Night

Eve Matheson, Michael Maloney, Carolyn Backhouse, Simon Fielder, Joss Ackland, William Chubb, Adjoa Andoh, Iain Cuthbertson, Rudolph Walker, Avie Nasser, Roger Hume, Jonathan Wyatt, Jason Yates
director Nigel Bryant

143:31, 134563, S BBC R7 G