The first of two programmes compiled with recordings from the Sound Archives examining the plays of Shakespeare in performance

With the voices and opinions of: Edith Evans, Robert Donat, Peggy Ashcroft, Ralph Richardson, Richard Burton, Henry Irving, Donald Wolfit, Albert Finney,
Peter O'Toole, Tyrone Guthrie, Arthur Bourchier, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, J. C. Trewin, Frank Benson, Laurence Olivier, Beryl Reid, Frankie Howerd, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson, Ellen Terry, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave

Narrator, John Pullen
Reader, Godfrey Kenton
Narration written by Derek Parker
Devised and produced by John Powell

(Broadcast on August 21, 1964
('To be or not to be' Tuesday, April 13)