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Taking a nostalgic look back through the BBC archives at some of Robert's radio appearances from 1952-1972.
These consist of radio plays, interviews and clips from his films.
Radio version of the play performed by the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company with Peggy Ashcroft as Portia and Michael Redgrave as Shylock. Produced by William Hughes from Denis Carey’s 1953 production at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. The music is composed by Julian Slade, orchestrated and conducted by Harold Ingram and played by the Memorial Theatre Orchestra.
Recording Date: October 11th 1953
Transmission Date: 25th October 1953 at 3pm
Running Time: 150 minutes including interval
A BBC recording from Birmingham studio.
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Rehearsals took place from 9/10/1953-11/10/1953
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There was a 10-minute interval at 16.10 approximately
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CAST
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Donald Pleasence - Launcelot Gobbo
John Bushelle - Prince of Morocco
Marigold Charlesworth - Nerissa
Philip Morant - Duke of Venice
Powys Thomas - Prince of Arragon
Raymond Sherry - Servant to Antonio
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Producers: Denis Carey & William Hughes
Writer: William Shakespeare
Music: Julian Slade
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Shakespeare’s tragedy produced for radio by Wilfrid Grantham. This version is adapted from George Devine’s theatre production at the Stratford Memorial Theatre, with Michael Redgrave in the title role. With music composed by John Gardner and played by the Stratford Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Harold Ingram.
Recording Date: 29th December 1953
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Transmission Date: 29th December 1953 at 7:55pm
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Running Time: 185 minutes (incl. interval)
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Availability: No archive copy known
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Rehearsals: 27/12/1953-28/12/1953​
The press night for the stage performance at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, was on 14/07/1953.
The programme is broadcast in two parts with a 15-minute interval at 21:15.
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Noel Howlett - Earl of Gloucester
Basil Hoskins - Edgar/Tom o’Bedlam
Michael Hayes - King of France
Michael Warre - Duke of Albany
Thomas Powys - Duke of Cornwall
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Director: George Devine
Producer: Wilfrid Grantham
Writer: William Shakespeare
Music: John Gardner
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Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced by Donald McWhinne. With Peggy Ashcroft and Tony Britton in the title roles. Marius Goring doubles as Chorus and Mercutio. The programme is prefaced by a 10-minute interview between Peggy Ashcroft and Franklin Engelmann.
Transmission Date: 6th January 1954 at 8:45pm
Duration: 150 minutes (incl. interval)
Availability: Unknown
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Part of a ‘Stars in their Choices’ programme sequence in the Curtain up! series on BBC’s Light Programme. Broadcast in 2 parts with a 15-minute break for the news at 10pm.
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CAST
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Robert Shaw - Tybalt
Donald Eccles - Friar Laurence
Powys Thomas - Escalus, Prince of Verona
Producer: Donald McWhinnie
Writer: William Shakespeare
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Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced for broadcasting by Peter Watts from the 1953 production by Glen Byam Shaw at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
With Michael Redgrave and Peggy Ashcroft in the title roles. The music is composed by Antony Hoskins and the Theatre Orchestra is directed by Harold Ingram. Basil Hoskins is Plutarch, the historian/narrator.
Recording Date: 23rd December 1953
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Transmission Date: 23rd April 1954 at 8:00pm
Duration: 160 minutes (incl. interval)
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Rehearsals: 22/12/1953-23/12/1953
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The Stratford production by Byam Shaw had its press night on 28/4/1953.
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CAST
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Michael Redgrave - Mark Antony
Donald Pleasence - Octavius Caesar
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Director: Glen Byam Shaw
Producer: Peter Watts
Music: Antony Hopkins and Harold Ingram
Writer: William Shakespeare
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Full-length radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced and adapted for broadcasting by Peter Watts. With Mary Wimbush as Kate and Joseph O’Conor as Petruchio. The music is collected and arranged by Jeremy Noble.
Transmission Date: 9th August 1954 at 8:00pm
Duration: 165 minutes (incl. interval)
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Availability: Unknown
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Rehearsals: 5/8/1954-9/8/1954
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The broadcast was interrupted by a 15-minute interval for the news at 21:00.
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CAST
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Norman Shelley - Christopher Sly
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Producer: Peter Watts
Music: Jeremy Noble
Writer: William Shakespeare
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The Monday Matinee presents
Transmission Date: Monday December 22nd 1952 at 4.00pm
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CAST
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Field: Hamilton Dyce
First Sub-Editor: Douglas Hayes
Second Sub-Editor: Aubrey Richards
Angus Collie: Andrew Faulds
Millie Trent: Betty Baskcomo
Tillman: Malcolm Hayes
Captain John Leslie: Jack Hulbert
Frank Sutton: Robert Shaw
Beryl Stedman: Audrey Mendes
Lewis Friedman: Arthur Ridley
Police Sergeant: Frank Tickle
Bill Annerley: Frank Atkinson
Alphonse: Rupert Davis
Jim Annerley: Lewis Stringer
A Reporter: Geoffrey Bond
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Producer: Norman Wright
Writer: Edgar Wallace
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The Lads of Chimney Hill
This is the story of a fight for the life of a pit and the wide-reaching effects which a decision to close it would have on the lives of a whole community.
Transmission Date: Tuesday May 2nd 1961 at 7.30pm
Written by James Tucker
Producer: Nesta Pain
CAST
Victor Barnes, a miner: Robert Shaw
Catherine, his wife: Brenda Bruce
Richards, a colliery manager: Frank Partington
His assistant: Andrew Irvine
Warren: Oliver Johnston
Mrs Warren: Molly Rankin
Adams: John Westbrook
Jenkins: James Thomason
Cross: Hugh Manning
Bob: Thomas Bowman
Miss Nelmes: Mairhi Russell
Goronwy Jones: Basil Jones
A Bishop: Wilfred Babbage
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TIGER AT THE GATES
On the platform stage, bare but for a pair of immense gates, stalks the inevitable tiger of war. Hector returns from battle as a peacemaker and convinces Ulysses and the populace of the insanity of war. Together they agree that the Trojan War shall not take place.
Transmission Date: Sunday October 4th 1964 at 2.30pm
Initial Broadcast: November 2nd 1959
Written by Jean Giraudoux
Translated by Christopher Fry
Produced by Cedric Messina
CAST
Hector: Michael Redgrave
Andromache: Barbara Jefford
Cassandra: Mary Morris
Paris: John Humphry
Priam: Ronald Baddiley
Demokos: David March
Hecuba: Sylvia Coleridge
Polyxene: Sheila Grant
Helen: June Tobin
Olpides: Jon Rollason
Troilus: David Spenser
Busiris: Rolf Lefebvre
Ajax: Trevor Martin
Ulysses: Robert Shaw
A Topman: Leigh Crutchley
Peace: Judy Bailey
Iris: Eva Stuart
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Take-Over
Two men sit chatting over their coddee and brandy in a London club. It is a comfortable Victorian room, with its portraits of Queen Victoria and Edward VII, its ponderous grandfather clock, its leather armchairs and its air of unruffled permanence. They are talking about their old-established family business, and the way someone has been buying up its shares.
Transmission Date: Sunday June 28th 1959 at 9.15pm
Writer: Colin Morris
Producer: Nesta Pain
CAST
Tom Lane: Edward Chapman
Jack Essex: Robert Shaw
Archie Paget: George Hagan
George Rowe: Sidney Monckton
Philpotts: Heron Carvic
Sonia Lane: Helen Jessop
Ralph Jordan: Duncan Carse
Fletcher: Basil Henson
Clerk: Harold Reese
Simon: Rolf Lefebvre
Miss Oakley: Molly Rankin
Joe: Keith Pyott
Narrator: Arthur Lawrence
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Missing Child
A child of eight years old is missing from her home. This programme tells the story of the search for her from the point of view of a Sunday newspaper.
Transmission Date: Sunday June 17th 1959 at 2.15pm
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Written by:John Prebble
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Producer: Nesta Pain
CAST
News Editor Jack Sargent: Robert Shaw
Bates: Godfrey Kenton
Mrs Sargent: Armine Sandford
Insp. MacLoughlin: Duncan McIntyre
Reporters: Jimmy Conway, Richard Burrell, Hugh Mills,
Basil Jones, Arthur Turner, Charles Hodgson, Harry Finch and
Jeffrey Segal
Deputy News Editor: Stratford Johns
Hedges: Stephen Jack
Baker: Harold Reese
Dr. Sidquick: Rolf Lefebvre
Mrs. Derek: Patricia Hayes
Mrs. Hedges: Ilona Ference
Landlord: John Scott
Narrator: Garard Green
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Let's Find Out!
Actor Robert Shaw and author and religious broadcaster Father Agnellus Andrew with four teenagers putting the questions.
In the chair, PETER HAIGH
Transmission Date: Tuesday January 11th 1966 at 12pm
Producer: David O'Clee
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FILMING IN MONTREAL
MARY URE, stage and film actress, talks about film making with her husband Robert Shaw, and their experiences while shooting a film in Canada.
Interviewer: PHILIP OAKES
Transmission Date: Sunday June 27 th 1965 at 5.30 pm
THE LIVELY ARTS
A weekly review of the arts in the making
This week:
JOHN BOWEN talks to GORE VIDAL about his latest novel Washington, D.C. and discusses with ROBERT SHAW, playwright and HAROLD Pinter, director, The Man in the Glass Booth, a play which Shaw adapted himself from his latest novel.
Transmission date: Wednesday July 26th 1967 at 7.30pm
Interviewer: John Bowen
Gore Vidal
Robert Shaw
Harold Pinter
CLIPS FROM THE NEW BOND MOVIE FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Adapted and introduced by GORDON GOW
Starring SEAN CONNERY
also starring
PEDRO ARMENDARIZ, LOTTE LENYA, ROBERT SHAW and BERNARD LEE
and introducing DANIELA BIANCHI
Transmission Date: Tuesday 29th October 1963 at 11.30pm
Producer: Bobby Jaye
From Morn to Midnight
Translated and freely adapted by Peter Watts with period music specially composed and conducted by Matyas Seiber and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company.
Transmission Date: Monday October 3rd 1955 at 9.15pm
CAST
The Onlooker: Valentine Dyall
The Cashier: Manning Wilson
The Fat Man: Richard Williams
The Lady: Catherine Salkeld
The Manager: Robert Shaw
The Young Man: David Enders
The Grandmother: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
The Wife: Cecile Chevreau
The Elder Daughter: Mairhi Russell
The Younger Daughter: Annabel Maule
The Director: George Hagan
The Salvation Army Lass: Joan Hart
The Waiter: James Thomason
The Masks: Annette Kelly
The Masks: Annabel Maule,
The Masks: Cecile Chevreau,
The Masks: Mairhi Russell
The Officer: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
First Soldier: George Hagan
First Penitent: Robert Shaw
Second Soldier: Annabel Maule
Second Penitent: Cecile Chevreau
Third Soldier: Ronald Sidney
Third Penitent: Edgar Norfolk
Fourth Soldier: Peter Claughton
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Written by Georg Kaiser
Adapted and Produced by Peter Watts
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The World of Books
News and views on books from
Janina David
G. R. Davies
Gerald Leach
ROBERT SHAW in conversation with HAROLD HOBSON about his latest novel "The Flag".
and ELIZABETH SALTER on "Smollett".
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
Transmission Date: Saturday 16th January 1965 at 10:10pm
Second House: Present and Future Scenes from
starring
ROBERT SHAW, HENRY FNDA, ROBERT RYAN and DANA ANDREWS
Adaptation by RICHARD SEYMOUR
Star Guest: ANTHONY NEWLEY
Producer: DINA DE LAURENTIIS
A portrait by JOHN CARLIN
Inside Show Business by PETER EVANS
Introduced by PETER HAIGH
First and Second House scripted by LYN FAIRHURST
Produced by JOHN DYAS
New Comment
A weekly review of the arts
Robert Shaw discusses his new novel, The Flag, and his recent work in the theatre and cinema, with John Bowen.
Gene Baro on Laurence Olivier's production of "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller at the National Theatre.
Transmission Date: Wednesday January 20th 1965 at 8.00pm
THIRTY MINUTE THEATRE
The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber
by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Francis Macomber and his wife Margot are on a big-game safari In Africa. We learn from the white, professional hunter and guide, Robert Wilson, that the "gun-bearers" and "personal boys" speak Yorùbá and sometimes receive illegal lashings. Earlier, Francis had panicked when a wounded lion charged him, and Margot mocks Macomber for his cowardice. Wilson is critical of Macomber, presented in interior monologue, but outwardly tries to shepherd Macomber toward a more accepted "code" practiced by experienced hunters. This is Francis' thirty-five-year-old "coming of age" story.
Transmission Date: Wednesday August 15th 1962 at 9.00pm
Adapted for Radio by Eric Ewens
Produced by William Glen-Doepel
CAST
Robert Shaw as Wilson
Guy Kingsley Poynter as Francis Macomber
Diana Olsson as Margo
Other parts played by Godfrey Kenton and Andrew Irvine
The World of Books
Introduced by Pat Williams
Eric Rhode on Henry James at Home by H. Montgomery Hyde
Alex Hamilton on Best Monte Stories and Robert Shaw's new novel
A Card from Morocco
Anthony Smith on The Compleat Flea by Brendan Lehane
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson
Transmission Date: Thursday 1st May 1969 at 9:25pm
In the Spotlight: Robert Shaw
On the "Julius Caesar" set: Charlton Heston, John Gielgud, Jason Robards
and Richard Johnson
"Aboard Moon Zero"
Tiro James Olson, Warren Mitchell and Bernard Bresslaw
MATTHEW NORGATE reviews the new films
DAVID RIDER goes Behind the Screen
On film:
Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens and Celia Johnson in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" adaptation by Gordon Gow
Introduced by PETER HAIGH
Written and produced by Lyn Fairhurst
Transmission Date: Sunday 24th August 1969 at 4.15pm
The World of Books
Introduced by John Metcalf
This week:
MARY LUTYENS talks about her study of Millais and the Ruskins published yesterday.
JILL BALCON reads letters from Mrs. Gaskell.
ROBERT SHAW interviewed about his new novel The Man in the Glass Booth.
CLIFF MICHELMORE on Conversations with Henry Brandon
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson
Transmission Date: Tuesday 17th January 1967 at 8.00pm
Marjorie Anderson introduces
Standing in /or Teacher: recalled by Jane Lysaght
Out of the News: involving a topic of interest
Born Under Scorpio: Hilda Jaffa gives the sun-sign characteristics; some people concerned comment
Pigeon Reporting: P. J. Walker remembers
Answering Your Questions
Robert Shaw reads from 'Clear Sky Above' by Neil Sheraton
(Robert's reading ran from Monday to Friday)
Transmission Dates: Monday 17th - Friday 21st October 1960 at 2.00pm
Soundtrack from "The Luck of Ginger Coffey" starring ROBERT SHAW and MARY URE and Walt Disney's "The Monkey's Uncle" starring ANNETTE FUNICELLO
MOLLY PLOWRIGHT reports on the Moscow Film Festival
NIGEL MURPHY recalls film musicals 1955 - 1965
PETER NOBLE with Headline News
Introduced by PETER HAIGH
Script and adaptations by LYN FAIRHURST
Produced by JOHN DYAS
Transmission Date: Sunday 25 th July 1965 at 3.00 pm
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A weekly survey of the arts Introduced by Michael Billington
This edition includes:
Cato Street: ROBERT SHAW talks about his new play starring Vanessa Redgrave at the Young Vic Theatre
London Film Festival: a review by ALEXANDER WALKER
Victorian Church Art: BEVIS HILLIER takes a look at the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Producer: ROSEMARY HART
Transmission Date: Thursday 18th November 1971 at 8.45pm
Soundtrack
"That Funny Feeling" starring SANDRA DEE, BOBBY DARIN and DONALD O'CONNOR
Adapted by Lyn Fairhurst
and "Tickle Me" starring ELVIS PRESLEY
Adapted by Marjorie Bilbow
MOLLY PLOWRIGHT prepares for the Moscow Film Festival
MARY URE, ROBERT SHAW and IRVIN KERSHNER serve Ginger Coffey for three
PETER NOBLE with Headline News
Introduced by PETER HAIGH
Script by LYN FAIRHURST
Producer JOHN DYAS
Transmission Date: Sunday 4 th July 1965 at 3.00 p m
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Richard Attenborough, Carl Foreman, Simon Ward, Anne Bancroft and Robert Shaw preview the film YOUNG WINSTON.
Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY
Written by LYN FAIRHURST
Producer BOBBY JAYE
Transmission Date: Saturday July 15th 1972 at 4.00pm
Star guest: ANNE HEYWOOD
BRIAN CULLINGFORD on the set of "The Birthday Party" with ROBERT SHAW, DANDY NICHOLS, HELEN FRASER and director WILLIAM FRIEDKIN
Guess-the-track teasers to win sound-track L.P.s
What's new-critically speaking with MATTHEW NORGATE
On release:
"No Way to Treat a Lady" starring ROD STEIGER, LEE REMICK, GEORGE SEGAL and EILEEN HECKART
Introduced by PETER HAIGH
Written and produced by LYN FAIRHURST
Transmission Date: Sunday 16th June 1968 at 3.00pm
Showcase Spectacular: on the airfield locations for "The Battle of Britain" with Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw and director Guy Hamilton
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Bryan Forbes meets David Rider
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Behind the Screen
Matthew Norgate reviews the new films
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On the set of "Spring and Port Wine" with James Mason, Rodney Bewes and
Susan George
Introduced by PETER HAIGH
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Written and produced by LYN FAIRHURST
(Repeated: Wednesday, 9.35am on Radio 4)
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Transmission Date: Sunday 14th September 1969 at 4.15pm
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A sound approach to the cinema including this week soundtrack from "Purple Noon" starring Alain Delon, Marie Laforet and Maurice Ronet
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"The Valiant" starring John Mills, Robert Shaw, Ettore Manni, Roberto Risso and Liam Redmond
Behind the Scenes of "Only Two Can Play"
Brian Forbes, Peter Sellers and the film makers of Shepperton
Stanley Black talking about the new British musical 'The Young Ones'
Film reports by Peter Noble
Music from the screen
Introduced by Peter Haigh
Script by Lyn Fairhurst
Produced by Alfred Dunning
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Transmission Date: Sunday 28th January 1962 at 3.00pm
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THE LIVELY ARTS
A view of the arts in the making
Introduced by DEREK HART
PETER WOOD, director of Congreve's TALKS ABOUT "Love for Love" a National Theatre production
JOHN LE CARRE on the filming of "The Spy who came in from the Cold"
BRYAN FORBES, director of the film "King Rat"
ROBERT SHAW on his part as German colonel in the film The Battle of the Bulge which opened on Friday
GERDA FLOCKINGER, jewellery designer
BEVERLEY PICK about Christmas street decorations in London and Glasgow
Production team: Helen Rapp, George Angell and Leonie Cohn
TRANSMISSION DATE: SUNDAY 19TH DECEMBER 1965 AT 3.45PM
SHOWCASE PRESENTATION
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starring
ROBERT SHAW, MARY URE
TY HARDIN, JEFFREY HUNTER and LAWRENCE TIERNEY
Adapted by Marjorie Bilbow
This week's current release:
"Carry On...Follow That Camel" starring
PHIL SILVERS, KENNETH WILLIAMS,
CHARLES HAWTREY, JIM DALE,
JOAN SIMS and PETER BUTTERWORTH
Adapted by Lyn Fairhurst
MICHAEL SMEE goes "Up the Junction"
The Production Scene in Britain PETER NOBLE
What's New
Critically Speaking MATTHEW NORGATE and Celebrities in the News
Script by LYN FAIRHURST
Introduced by PETER HAIGH
Produced by JOHN DYAS
Shortened version: Friday, 4.00p.m. (Radio 4)
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Transmission Date: Sunday 7th January 1968 at 4.00pm
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A programme designed to reflect International, Commonwealth and United Kingdom artists appearing currently before London audiences.
What's New in the Theatre
Laurie Payne and Margaret Burton with songs from
' The Three Caskets'
At the Royal Court Theatre: ' The Changeling,' starring Mary Ure and Robert Shaw
The Song of the Week
Record Event
Ray Hartley composer-pianist from Australia
London Cabaret and a collection of other items
Introduced by Wilfrid Thomas
with The Bill Shepherd Singers and the BBC Revue Orchestra
Leader, Julien Gaillard
Conducted by Malcolm Lockyer
Produced by Trafford Whitelock
BBC General Overseas Service recording
Transmission Date: Saturday 11th March 1961 at 6.30pm
The Play's The Thing
Six programmes on the art and technique of the theatre.
1: The Playwright
R D. SMITH talks to
JOHN ARDEN
ALAN PLATER
ARNOLD RIDLEY
ROBERT SHAW
Produced by PEGGY BRANFORD
Transmission Date: Saturday 11th July 1970 at 11.00pm
by John Galsworthy
Adapted for radio by John Richmond
CAST
Anne Morecombe: Renee Asherson
A detective: Leslie Perrins
Ellen, the maid: Mary Wimbush
Daisy Odiham: Molly Lawson
A reporter: Derek Hart
Colonel Roland: Wyndbam Goldie
Geoffrey Darrel: Lewis Stringer
An editor: Hugh Manniing
News editor: Arthur Lawrence
Lady Morecombe: Ella Milne
Mr Odiham: Toke Townley
Lieutenant Oswald: Robert Shaw
Foreman of the Jury: Derek Birch
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Other parts played by: Garard Green, Nan Marriott-Watson,
John Cazabon, Mary Williams and Antony Kearey
Production by William Hughes
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Transmission Date: Saturday 14th March 1953 at 9.15pm
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The Key of the Garden
by Naomi Mitchison and Lewis Gielgud
Adapted for broadcasting by Mollie Greenhalgh
CAST
A Roman soldier: Stanley Groome
Leah: Nan Marriott-Watson
A Temple scribe: Robert Shaw
Phoebe: Susan Richards
Daniel: George Merritt
Mary of Magdala: Betty Baskcomb
Mary: Mary O'Farrell
Joseph of Arimathea: Joseph O'Conor
Peter: T. St. John Barry
James: Robert Mooney
Barabbas: Harry Towb
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Production By: Norman Wright
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Transmission Date: Thursday 14th April 1955 at 3.45pm
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Time's Winged Chariot
A play for radio by Elizabeth Dawson
Play produced by Hugh Stewart
CAST
Charles Hendrick: Frederick Schrecker
Paul: Robert Shaw
Fanny Hendrick: Sarah Leigh
Dr Morley: Norman Mitchell
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Transmission Date: Saturday 17th May 1952 at 3.35pm
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Soundtracks from
"Hud" starring PAUL NEWMAN co-starring MELVYN DOUGLAS PATRICIA NEAL and BRANDON DE WILDE
"Tomorrow at Ten" starring JOHN GREGSON
ROBERT SHAW, ALEC CLUNES, ALAN WHEATLEY, KENNETH COPE with guest stars HELEN CHERRY, WILLIAM HARTNELL and BETTY McDOWALL
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Interview with ARTHUR HORNBLOW, JNR.
PETER NOBLE'S news features
Introduced by PETER HAIGH
Script by LYN FAIRHURST
Produced by ALFRED DUNNING
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Transmission Date: Sunday 23rd June 1963 at 3.00pm
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