- Unknown:
- William Shakespeare
- Broadcasting By:
- M. R. Ridley
- Produced By:
- Howard Rose
- Earl of Kent:
- Ralph Truman
- Earl of Gloucester:
- John Ruddock
- Edmund, son to Gloucester:
- Roderick Lovell
- Lear King of Britain:
- Donald Wolfit
- Daughters to Lear : Goneril:
- Sonia Dresdel
- Daughters to Lear: Cordelia:
- Rosalind Iden
- Daughters to Lear: Regan:
- Barbara Couper
- Duke of Burgundy:
- Philip Morant
- King of France:
- Denis McCarthy
- Edgar, son to Gloucester:
- Harry Andrews
- Oswald steward to Goneril:
- Arnold Diamond
- A messenger:
- Adrian Thomas
- Fool:
- Robert Eddison
- Duke of Albany:
- Douglas Jefferies
- First gentleman:
- Richard West
- Curan:
- John Boxer
- Duke of Cornwall:
- Andrew Cruickshank
- A gentleman:
- Ian Cooper
- An old man:
- Lance George
- Narrator:
- Duncan Carse
