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Including ' How to Make Notes' and ' How to Listen to Lectures '; with trips through Shakespeare-land hints on dramatic criticism, and How to Write Shakespeare's Life ' Demonstrated by members of the ' How ' Repertory Company
Written and produced by Stephen Potter
This programme describes the peculiar world which has grown up round Shakespeare and which demonstrates in fact how not to appreciate him. Learned and irrelevant notes; pedantic or by contrast ' imaginative lives; talks describing the tremendous Englishness and tremendous niceness, not so much of Shakespeare but of the speaker; one's least favourite moments in least favourite Shakespeare productions

Contributors

Produced By:
Stephen Potter

by Christopher Marlowe
Other players Include Franklyn Bellamy. Andrew Churchman , Philip Lennard. Bryan Powley , Charles Renison. Arthur Ridley. Ralph de Rohan. David Duncan , Hillary Wontner. Douglas Mattison. and Marjorie Westbury
Textual advisor.'M. R. Ridley
Produced by Peter Watts

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Marlowe
Unknown:
Franklyn Bellamy.
Unknown:
Andrew Churchman
Unknown:
Philip Lennard.
Unknown:
Bryan Powley
Unknown:
Charles Renison.
Unknown:
Arthur Ridley.
Unknown:
Ralph De Rohan.
Unknown:
David Duncan
Unknown:
Hillary Wontner.
Unknown:
Douglas Mattison.
Unknown:
Marjorie Westbury
Unknown:
M. R. Ridley
Produced By:
Peter Watts
Piers Gaveston:
Esme Percy
King Edward II:
Valentine Dyall
Edmund Earl of Kent (his brother):
Graham Doody
Thomas Earl of Lancaster:
Malcolm Graeme
Guy, Earl of Warwick:
John Garside
Roger Mortimer the Elder:
Peter Creswell
Roger Mortimer the Younger:
Dennis Arundell
Queen Isabella:
Catherine Salkeld
Margaret, Edward's niece:
Olivia Barley
Hugh Spencer the Younger:
Malcolm Hayes
Baldock:
Lionel Stevens
Prince Edward (later Edward III):
Peter Mullins
Gurney:
Max Brent
Metrovis:
Hugh Falkus
Lightborn:
Cyril Gardiner
Chronicler:
Andrew Faulds

8-' Thieves of Mercy'
Written for broadcasting by Herbert Read
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
Parti
Author's statement of the problem, read by Cecil Trouncer
Part 2
Part 3
Author's postscript, read hy Cecil Trouncer
What took place aboard the privateer which captured Hamlet on his way to England? How was it that, on his return to Denmark, the melancholy Prince had become a man of energy and resolution?

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Herbert Read
Produced By:
Rayner Heppenstall
Read By:
Cecil Trouncer
Hamlet:
Cyril Cusack
Pirate Captain:
John Laurie

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