Monday 27 February 1928 8-9

Ellen Terry
In Honour of her Eightieth Birthday

Act IV Scene 5

Queen - Mabel Terry Lewis
Horatio - John Gielgud
Ophelia - Fay Compton
King - Charles Terry
Laertes - Ben Webster

Wednesday 18 July 1928 London and Daventry 9.35-11.15

Hamlet - Gyles Isham
King - Leslie Perrins
Queen - Irene Rooke
Laertes - Ian Fleming
Horatio - Ivan Samson
Marcellus - Herbert Lugg
Ghost - Victor Lewisohn
Ophelia - Muriel Hewitt
Polonius - Marcus Barron
Narrator - Dorothy Holmes-Gore

(no pr listed)

Tonight's broadcast production of 'Hamlet' will not be a complete version of the play as written. Great care has, however, been taken to ensure that the best which Shakespeare at almost his greatest has given us shall be retained. 'Hamlet', as far as stage or microphone presentations go, is the finest of the tragedies, though, as a sheer resplendent work of genius, it is excelled by 'King Lear', a play which makes such demands upon the actors and the stage as to render its production seldom possible. 'Hamlet' is, par excellence, a 'microphone play' though at such moments as the killing of Polonius and the fnal bloody climax, its action becomes visual. The true and moving drama of the piece lies in its dialogue, which contains many lovely and familiar lines. .. tonight is the first important Shakespearian broadcast since the production, on St. George's Day, of 'Henry V'.

Thursday 22 November 1928 Daventry 5GB 10.15-11.15

Hamlet - Robert Speaight
Bernardo - Arthur Clay
Francisco - Frank Denton
Ghost - Andrew Churchman
Queen - Barbara Couper
Ophelia - Lillian Harrison
Horatio - Charles Lefeaux
Claudius - William Marsh
Polonius - Frank Denton
Laertes - Arthur Clay
Narrator - T.C.L. Farrar

Tonight's production takes us as far away from the tradition of the footlights; the quiet voices of the actors will unfold a grim story much nearer reality than tragedy.