by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
With Joss Ackland as Macbeth
Googie Withers as Lady Macbeth
Robert Hardy as Macduff
Music by STEPHEN DODGSON conducted by RAE JENKINS
Macbeth is one of the shortest of Shakespeare's plays, which enables us to broadcast a nearly complete text, omitting only the two Hecat scenes (probably written by Middleton), and including what may well be the missing scene: it occurs in a 1664 Restoration adaptation of Macbeth by Shakespeare's 'godson' Sir William Davenant who based it on a playhouse prompt-copy.
First Witch MARJORIE WESTBURY
Macduff, Thane of Fife ROBERT HARDY
Donalbain, younger son of Duncan ...........NIGEL ANTHONY
An old man........... JOHN RUDDOCK
First murderer....EDWARD KELSEY
Second murderer RONALD HERDMAN
Gentlewoman, attendant on Lady Macbeth...BETTY BASKCOMB
Macduff 's wife .......... EVA STUART
Son of Macduff........TOBY DANIELS
A Doctor JOHN RUDDOCK
Seyward, Earl of Northumberland ........... DOUGLAS BLACKWELL
Young Seyward.....NIGEL ANTHONY
Arranged for stereo ;and produced by RAYMOND RAIKES ‡
During the Interval (7.55*-8.5*) Settings by Schubert of two poems by Sir Walter Scott
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar)
GERALD MOORE (piano): records