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Troilus And Cressida

Networks
BBC (as its archives name them)
Heard
1980
Episodes
2
Language
English

William Shakespeare - Troilus and Cressida (BBC R3 1980-03-06)

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First Broadcast: Thu 6th Mar 1980, 19:30 on BBC Radio 3

Rebroadcast: Sun 5th Apr 1981, 19:30 on BBC Radio 3

Music By: Christos Pittas

Directed By: David Spenser

Directed By: Alan Howard

Directed By: Norman Rodway

Troilus: Michael Pennington

Cressida: Maureen O'Brien

Ulysses: Norman Rodway

Pandarus: Nigel Stock

Thersites: Alan Howard

Hector: Terrence Hardiman

Nestor: Sebastian Shaw

Agamemnon: Gabriel Woolf

Ajax: David Buck

Achilles: John Rye

Paris: Jeremy Clyde

Patroclus: John Bull

Diomedes: Philip Sully

Helen: Petra Davies

Cassandra: Sheila Grant

Aeneas: Gordon Dulieu

Calchas/Prologue: John Westbrook

Menelaus: Peter Baldwin

Alexander: Gordon Reid

Priam: Leonard Fenton

Andromache: Sonia Fraser

Helenus: Graham Faulkner

Margarelon: Trevor Cooper

Deiphobus: Lee Harrington

Servant to Paris: Brian Carroll

Troilus and Cressida

Sitting down to a blockbuster evening of kultur – as with last week’s three-and-a-quarter-hour-long production of Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida” (Radio 3, March 6th) – we are bound to feel dutiful and meritorious. E’en before the first ‘whither’ or ‘wherefore’ has been uttered, you feel you’ve earned yourself the equivalent in compensating trash – say, four weeks “Dallas” watching.

Those grudging feelings about Shakespeare are usually swept smartly into out critical recesses, yet they shouldn’t be. Shakespeare is hard for modern audiences, radio Shakespeare…

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Part 1

    No date given · 1 h 34 min

  2. Part 2

    No date given · 1 h 35 min

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  1. Troilus And Cressida (BBC R3 1980)

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