THE BRONZE
HORSE
(1948)LOVE'S
LABOUR'S LOST (1946)
Radio adaptation of the Shakespeare play.
A
written transcript of the production is held at the Birmingham Central Library
as part of their Shakespeare Collection. Gerald Finzi's Love's Labour's
Lost Suite had its origins in this performance. "The small-scale radio context
meant that it was originally scored for a small
chamber orchestra." -Julie Sanders, Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives
and
Borrowings,
Cambridge,
UK 2007.
Dir: Noel Illif.
Music by
Gerald Finzi
Cast:
| Robert Marsden - Ferdinand, King of Navarre | Donald Eccles - Longaville |
| Paul Scofield - Berowne | Eric Lugg - Anthony Dull |
| Thea Holme - Princess of France | Grenville Eves - Dumaine |
| Pauline Letts - Rosaline | Julian Somers - Boyet |
| Ernest Milton - Don Adriano de Armado | Olive Gregg - Maria |
| Barbara McFadyean - Katherine | Peter Hoar - Costard |
| Bertram Heyhoe - Nathaniel | Raf de la Torre - Holofernes |
| Charles Leno - Monsieur Marcade | Vera Draffin - Jaquenetta |
| David Spenser - Moth |
Radio Adaptation of the T.S. Eliot play.
Prod: John Richmond
Radio dramatization of Leonardo da Vinci's struggles to create a gigantic bronze horse. Scofield plays Giacomo, Leonardo's mischievous assistant.
Dir: Michel Saint Denis
Radio adaptation of Terence Rattigan's drama about Alexander the Great. Music by Benjamin Frankel
Cast: Paul Scofield
Radio adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play. Music by John Buckland.
Peter Brook's production at Stratford-Upon Avon adapted for broadcast by E.A. Harding.
Prod: Wilfred Grantham
Dir: Peter Watts
Radio adaptation of a play by Anouilh. French accordionist Orphee meets Euridyce, an actress, in a train station. M. Henri, played by Paul Scofield, is the sinister, possibly non-human "man in a macintosh" who stalks the couple.
This is an old-fashioned adaptation. By our MTV-influenced standards the pacing is glacial and some of the voices seem overly theatrical (Ms. Bryer, who plays Eurydice, sounds like the Marx Brothers' favorite straight woman, Margaret Dumont). Scofield's voice, however, is full of his celebrated "iron sweetness." By the end of the play, M. Henri's transformation from a cold-hearted ghoul to a creature who can feel pity is poignant and fully believable.
Two 45-minute installments.
Adaptation by Raymond Raikes. Original music by John Hotchkis.
Cast: Paul Scofield - M. Henri, Esmé Percy - Dulac, David Peel - Orphée, Denise Bryer-Eurydice, Sebastian Cabot - driver of the bus , Norman Shelly - the father, Gladys Spencer - the mother, Laidman Browne - Vincent, Stuart Burge - Mathias, Ronald Sydney - the little manager, Joan Matheson - girl in the touring company, Betty Baskcomb - girl in the touring company, Martin Lewis - buffet waiter, Malcolm Hayes - police-station clerk, Howieson Culff -hotel waiter, Diana Maddox - the beautiful cashier, Jean Driant - station loudspeaker.
Radio adaptation of a symbolist prose poem by Auguste, Count de Villiers De L'isle-Adam, published in 1890. "Wagnerian in theme and scope, Axel combines symbolism and occult themes. Axel, the lord of a German castle, kills a relative who attempts to uncover the secret of a mysterious treasure buried in his home and is himself attacked by the young novice Sara just after she works the charm to reveal the gold and jewels hidden in the vault. Overcome by passion, the two remain below, Sara dreaming of a world of fortune, Axel contending that nothing in life can equal their moment of joyful expectation. During the night, both drink poison from a jeweled cup found among the treasure." -- The Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature
THE NAMELESS ONE OF EUROPE (1951)
From the Radio Times:
‘The Nameless One of Europe’
A new play written for broadcasting by James Forsyth
‘A child is given life, then given a name. And, though the donors seem the same, to lose the one – the life – is to be at the mercy of the Merciful Deity; to lose the other – to lose one’s name – is strangely to be at the mercy of Man’
Cast in order of speaking:
Miss Delawaine: Betty Baskomb
Joe Galgner: John Slater
Ella: Aletha Orr
Jules Saint-Blaise, an Anglo-French law student: Paul Scofield
Anina: Yvonne Mitchell
Anselmo: Theodore Bikel
Miss Blyth: Margaret Vines
Martin Saint-Blaise: Austin Trevor
Marcelline: Catherine Salkeld
Miss Fisher: Nansi Davies
The action takes place in New York, Venice and London
Production by Donald McWhinnie. Dir: James Forsyth.
Again, it appears that this one does not survive in either the BBC Sound Archive nor in the British Library. If anybody out in cyberspace has an off-air recording please e-mail me.
THE HAWK AND THE HANDSAW (1951)
Radio
Play by Michael Innes. Comedy. Hamlet's delay is explained by his having
consulted a Freudian psychotherapist.
THE CROSS AND THE ARROW (1951)
Radio adaptation of Albert Maltz's novel about Nazi Germany. A German factory worker and World War I hero turns against the Nazi regime with tragic consequences.
Dir: Peter
Watts
Two-part radio adaptation of the Henry James novel.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leon Quartermaine, Roger Delgado
Unable to find more information on this. I guess it is probably a radio adaptation of Thomas Love Peacock's satirical novel.
Unable to find more information on this.
This production was originally broadcast in 1954 and subsequently released on audio tape (as a part of the obscure educational BBC Study Library) c1980. It was available for many years from a media company called Audio Forum, however I am informed they no longer have the right to any BBC material.
The cast:
Delio, friend to Antonio ... Godfrey Kenton
Antonio, steward of the household of the Duchess ... Tony Britten
Bosola, gentleman of the horse to the Duchess ... Paul Rogers
The Cardinal, brother to Ferdinand and the Duchess ... Esme Percy
Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, brother to the Duchess ... Paul Scofield
Silvio, a courtier ... Alec Gunn
Grisolan, a courtier ... Leonard Trolley
Duchess of Malfi ... Peggy Ashcroft
Cariola, her woman ... Rosalie Crutchley
Castruccio, a courtier ... Cyril Shaps
Roderigo ... Manning Wilson
Julia, Castruccio's wife and the Cardinal's mistress ... Mary Wimbush
A Doctor ... James Dale
The Marquis of Pescara ... Geoffrey Matthews
Old Lady ... Nan Marriott-Watson
with Rupert Davies, Gregor Hagan and Alan Reid
Music composed by James Bernard and conducted by John Hollingsworth
Produced by R.D. Smith
Radio adaptation of Shakespeare's play presented in honor of Sybil Thorndike's Golden Jubilee in the theatre. This may be only time Scofield and Olivier performed together.
Cast:
Ralph Truman: King Henry VIII
Sybil Thorndike: Queen Katherine
Robert Donat: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
Ralph Richardson: Cardinal Wolsey
Vivien Leigh: Anne Boleyn
Alan Reid
Alan Webb: Lord Caputius
Alan Wheatley: Earl of Surrey
Annabel Maule
Athene Seyler: Old Lady
Audrey Cameron: Patience
Brian Haines
Bryan Powley
Catherine Salkeld
Derek Birch
Eliot Makeham: Messenger
Ernest Thesiger: Lord Chancellor
Esme Percy: Doctor Butts
Geoffrey Matthews
George Hagan: Gentleman
George Rose: Cardinal Campeius
Godfrey Kenton: Duke of Suffolk
Harold Scott: Sir Thomas Lovell
Henry Oscar: Surveyor
Hugh David
Janet Burnell
John Gabriel
John Gielgud: Duke of Buckingham
Laidman Browne: Thomas Cromwell
Laurence Olivier: Porter
Leon Quartermaine: Lord Chamberlain
Lewis Casson: Griffith
Manning Wilson
Mary Wimbush
Michael Turner: Herald
Nicholas Hannen: Prologue
Paul Scofield: Duke of Norfolk
Peter Claughton
Peter Howell
Richard Bebb: Lord Sandys
Richard Waring
Rupert Davies
Russell Thorndike: Gardiner, later Bishop of Winchester
Sulwen Morgan
T. St John Barry
Dir: Peter Watts and Audrey Cameron
A Christmas Commission (or A Mural for Christmas) a radio
play by
Mervyn Peake. An artist with a commission to paint a nativity mural on the
wall of a country church muses on Art, fame and God. Revised
as The Eye of the Beholder (or The Voice of One) broadcast on the BBC Home
Service on Tuesday 18 December 1956.
Cast:
Paul
Scofield
Dir: Donald Holmes
EDWARD
II (1955)
BBC World Theatre radio adaptation of Christopher Marlow's Edward II. The
Times described the 90-minute broadcast as "a work of riotously energetic
beauty. Mr. Paul Scofield who put iron into Richard II's soul at Hammersmith
a few years ago, found in Edward's the iron already there; and one can think
of no actor whose voice has inherently more of the pure Marlow metal than
Mr. Scofield's." Times, (London), 18 January, 1955.
Dir: R.D. Smith (R.D. Smith was the model for the Guy Pringle character in
the novel cycle, Fortunes
of War by his wife, Olivia Manning.)
Cast: Paul Scofield as Edward, Richard Hurdall as Gaveston, Pamela Brown as
the Queen, and Paul Rogers as Mortimer.
Radio adaptation of Chekhov's "The Seagull." Scofield played Trigorin.
Dir: Archie Campbell
NIGHT
OF 100 STARS, LONDON PALLADIUM, THURSDAY, 28 JUNE, 1956
LP. Performances
by Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Paul Scofield, Laurence Harvey, Peter Ustinov,
Jack Benny, Vivien Leigh, Noel Coward, John Mills and others. One performance
to benefit the Actors' Orphanage.
Introduction
(Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft)--Three theatrical dames (P. Scofield, P. Ustinov,
L. Harvey)--Getting to know you (J. Benny, Y. Larvin)--Top hat, white tie
and tails (L. Olivier, V. Leigh, J. Mills)--Chicago (The Night of 100 Stars
Girls)--Chattanooga choo choo (T. Power)--I've got an invitation to a dance
(B. Hope)--Let's do it (N. Coward)--Thank you so much Missus Lowsborough-Goodby;
Marvelous party (B. Lillie)--What do I care? (T. Bankhead)--Black Minnie's
got the blues (M. Mercer).
An image of Paul Scofield, Peter Ustinov, Laurence Harvey rehearsing for
the event can be found on the Getty images web site at HU019538| Standard
RM| C Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
Unable to find more information on this.
A reading of Nikolai Gogol’s story about a minor bureaucrat’s slide into insanity.
Dir: H.B. Fortuin. Music composed and conducted by Humphrey Searle.
Two 30-minute installments.
"The
Prisoner is a Cardinal in the Catholic Church of a middle-European country.
The Interrogator represents the totalitarian government
which has taken over that country and which finds it necessary to destroy the
Cardinal whose independence of spirit constitutes a danger to the government.
The play is a series of scenes between The Interrogator and The Prisoner, both
of whom respect the other, but cannot accept what the other stands for."
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsB/boland-bridget.html
PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE (1958)
Radio adaptation of the Shakespeare play. A written transcript of the production is held at the Birmingham Central Library as part of their Shakespeare Collection.
Cast:
Paul
Scofield: Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Lockwood West: Gower
Nicolette Bernard: Thaisa
Jill Raymond: Marina
Selma Vaz Dias: Dionyza
Anthony Viccars: Pander/Gentleman
Betty Linton: Philomena (Philemon)/Lychorida
Brian Wilde: Fisherman/Lord
David March: Cleon
Douglas Storm: Lord
Errol John: Cerimon
Frank Partington: Lysimachus
Frank Windsor: Gentleman/Fisherman
Haydn Jones: Thaliard
John Ruddock: Helicanus
June Tobin: Diana/Daughter of Antiochus
Malcolm Hayes: Boult/Antiochus
Oliver Burt: Simonides, King of Pentapolis
Patricia Hayes: Bawd
Patrick Magee: Leonine
Patrick Wymark: Fisherman
Dir:
R.D. Smith.
The music is composed by Marcus Dods who also conducts the Goldsbrough Orchestra.
EXPRESSO
BONGO (1958)
Cast recording of musical comedy. Small-time talent agent Johnny Jackson (Paul
Scofield) uses the magic of public relations to turn talent-challenged bongo
player Herbert Rudge into Bongo Herbert, Rock 'n' Roll star.
Cast:
Paul Scofield, Millicent Martin, James Kenney, Hy Hazell, Meier Tzelniker,
Elizabeth Ashley
Musical Director: Burt Rhodes
You can read a review of the cast recording here. IMDB lists a 1965 West German remake called Bongo Boy.
You can learn more about Wolf Mankowitz, the play's author, here.
Unable to find any information on this one. It is listed in Garry O'Connor, page 58.
Radio adaptation of the Ibsen Play.
Cast:
Paul Scofield, Dorothy Holmes-Gore, Irene Worth, Russell Napier, Ernest Milton,
Peter Claughton.
Dir:
Mary Hope Allen
A young man taking part in a historical pageant suffers a bump on the head and comes to believe he's Henry IV.
Unable to find more information on this.
Dir: H.B. Fortuin
A monologue by the German playwright Georg Buchner, written in 1836. The story deals with a schizophrenic experience.
Translated by Goronwy Recs, and read by Paul Scofield, with music by Humphrey Searle.
Prod: H.B. Fortuin
ESSENTIAL DICKENS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1960)
Scofield narrates an abridged version of "A Christmas Carol."
Dir: Howard Sackler
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Paul Scofield, Frederick Treves, David Dodimead,
Willoughby Goddard, Norman Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer, Colette Wilde, Edgar Wreford,
James Culliford, Pauline Jameson, John Mitchell and Michael Lewis.
TWELFTH NIGHT
(CAEDMON RECORDS, 1961)
Scofield plays Malvolio.
Dir: Howard Sackler
Cast: Siobhan McKenna, Paul Scofield, Vanessa Redgrave, John Neville
HENRY IV. PART 1 (ARGO RECORDS, 1961)
Cast:
Anthony Jacobs:
King Henry IV
Gary Watson: Prince Henry (Hal)
Donald Beves: Sir John Falstaff
Paul Scofield: Henry Percy (Hotspur)
Vivienne Chatterton: Mistress Quickly
Anthony Arlidge: Bardolph
Corin Redgrave: Lord John of Lancaster
David Jones: Gadshill
Denis McCarthy: Richard Scroop, Archbishop of York
Dilys Hamlett: Lady Percy
Eirian James: Lady Mortimer
Frank Duncan: Earl of Westmoreland
Ian Lang: Earl of Westmoreland
John Arnott: Archibald, Earl of Douglas
John Barton: Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
John Tracy-Phillips: Sir Walter Blunt
Peter Forster: Sir Michael
Philip Strick: Poins
Richard Marquand: Sir Richard Vernon
Simon Relph: Peto
William Squire: Owen Glendower
Dir:
George Rylands
PAUL SCOFIELD READS THE POETRY OF DRYDEN (CAEDMON RECORDS, 1962)
Poems
read: Song:The
Zambra Dance,
Prologue from An Evening's Love, Epilogue to The Man of Mode, To
the Memory of Mr.
Oldham,
Song: I Feed a Flame Within,
Song: Whilst Alexis Lay Press'd, Alexander's
Feast, or The Power of Music, An Ode in Honor of St.
Cecilia's Day, Absalom and Achitohel (abridged)
Dir: Howard Sackler
HAMLET (CAEDMON RECORDS, 1963)
Cast: Paul Scofield, Diana Wynyard, Willfrid Lawson, Roland Culver, Charles Heslop, Edward De Sousa, Zena Walker, Donald Houston
Dir: Howard Sackler
You can see photos and information on Scofield's first Hamlet (1948) at http://www.bbc.co.uk/hamlet/past_productions/rsc_stage_1948.shtml
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (CAEDMON RECORDS, 1964)
Scofield plays Oberon, his wife, Joy Parker, plays Titania.
Cast:
Paul Scofield, Joy Parker, Jack Gwillim, Miles Malleson, John Stride, Edward
de Souza, John Warner, Gerald James, Ronald Fraser, Murray Melvin, Newton
Blick, Jerry Verno, Michael Faulkes, Patricia Routledge, Carolyn John,
Barbara Jefford, Kit Williams,
Janet Aust, Sarah Acket.
Dir: Howard Sackler
Saturday Night Theater. Drama based on a novel by Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill wrote this novel of romantic and political intrigue in 1897, when he was serving in India. Evil dictator General Moara tries to involve Savrola, a young, liberal politician known as "the Great Democrat," in a sex scandal to discredit him. Revolution and wife-swapping ensue.
Cast:
Paul Scofield stars as Savrola, with June Tobin, Norman Shelley, and other
members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company.
Dir: John
Tydeman
THE OTHER WORLD OF WINSTON CHURCHILL (1964)
A profile of Churchill the passionate painter. Scofield narrates. Adapted from Jack D. LeVien's production for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television programme.
Live audio recording of Peter Brook's production of King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Cast:
Paul Scofield: Lear
Diana Rigg: Cordelia
John Laurie: Earl of Gloucester
Alec McGowan: Fool
Brian Murray: Edgar, later disguised as Tom o'Bedlam
Barry MacGregor: King of France
Clifford Rose: Duke of Albany
Ian Richardson: Edmund
Irene Worth: Goneril
John Church: Captain
John Harwood: Curan
Ken Wynne: Old Man
Michael Burrell: Doctor
Michael Murray: Duke of Burgundy
Michael Williams: Oswald
Pauline Jameson: Regan
Peter Blythe: Herald
Tom Fleming: Earl of Kent
Tony Church: Duke of Cornwall
Dir: Peter Brook
Anthology of readings and music to coincide with the Shakespeare Exhibition of 1964. Scenes and speeches from the later plays with incidental songs, plus "tributes to Shakespeare in poetry, prose, and music." Music includes compositions by John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons and A. Bliss.
Cast:
Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Peggy Ashcroft, Alan Bates, Judi Dench, Edith
Evans, John Geilgud, Richard Johnson, Peter McEnery, Laurence
Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Paul Scofield,
Alan Bates
Dir: George Rylands, Artistic director,
Richard Buckle.
THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR (CAEDMON RECORDS, 1965)
Cast:
Paul Scofield, Cyril Cusack, Rachel Roberts, Pamela Brown, Ann Bell, John
Stride, Robert Stephens, Wallas Eaton, John Rogers, Trevor Martin, Michael
Aldridge, Andrew Kier, Arthur Hewlett, Ronnie Stevens, Willoughby Goddard,
and Ronald Ibbs.
Dir:
Howard Sackler
THREE SISTERS/TRI SESTRY (1965)
Performed
in the English translation by Elisaveta Fen and adapted for radio by Peter
Watts.
Dir: John Tydeman
Cast:Paul Scofield-Vershinin;
Jill Bennett-Masha; Rosalie Crutchley-Olga; Wilfrid Lawson-Chebutykin; George
Cole-Koolyghin; Lynn Redgrave-Irena; Terry
Scully-Prozorov; Ian McKellen-Toozenbach; Gudrun Ure-Natasha, David Buck-Soliony)
THE DIARY OF VASLAV NIJINSKY (1965)
Extracts from Nijinsky's diary read by Paul Scofield.
Dir: H.B. Fortuin. Music: Richard Rodney Bennett, BBC Welsh Orchestra with Marcus Dods conducting.
THE FAMILY REUNION (CAEDMON RECORDS, 1965)
Verse play by T.S. Eliot.
Cast:
Flora Robson, Paul Scofield, Sybil Thonrndike, Alan Webb, Rosalie Crutchley,
Pauline Jameson, Alan Wheatley, Charles Heslop, Jill Bennett, Gearald James,
Richard Goolden, Patricia Somerset
Dir:
Howard Sackler
HOMAGE TO T. S. ELIOT: AN EVENING OF MUSIC, DRAMA, AND VERSE (1965)
London Fringe limited run one night only, June 13, 1965. The BroadwayWorld.com web site says that an LP recording was made of the performance, but gives no information regarding record label and distribution. The programme featured an Igor Stravinsky choral work, "Introitus," written in Eliot's memory and a Henry Moore sculpture entitled "The Archer." Andrei Voznesensky, Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier, and Paul Scofield recited. Poems read during the program were selected by W.H. Auden, and Cleanth Brooks contributed a brief narration. Devised and produced by Vera Lindsay. This performance was held at the London Library at the Globe Theatre, London, Sunday 13 June 1965 at 8 p.m.
Cast: Bernard Cribbins, George Devine, Cleo Laine, Groucho Marx, Roddy Maude-Roxbury, Alec McGowen, John Le Mesurier, Laurence Olivier, Anna Quayle, Clive Revill, Ian Richardson, Paul Scofield, Nicol Williamson
Poetry included:
Preludes
(1917)
Gerontion (1920)
The Cooking Egg (1920)
The Waste Land V (1922)
Coriolan Triumphal March
Ash Wednesday II
Little Gidding (1942)
Gus: The Theatre Cat
Sweeney Agonistes
A
classic 1960's production of The Scottish Play. Free download available
at
http://www.playshakespeare.com/library/doc_details/65-macbeth-bbc-version
Cast:
Paul Scofield: Macbeth
Peggy Ashcroft: Lady Macbeth
Alec McGowan: Macduff
David Westen: Malcolm
John Westbrook: Banquo
Allan McClelland: Lord
Brian Hewlett: Donalbain
Cecile Chevraeau: Gentlewoman
Fraser Kerr: Angus
Glyn Dearman: Young Siward/Glyn Dearman Fleance
Grizelda Hervey: 1st Witch
Henry Stamper: Seyton/Old Man
Jane Wenham: Lady Macduff
John Dearth: Captain
John Hollis: Siward, Earl of Northumberland/1st Murderer
John Humphry: Lennox
John Justin: Ross
Mary O'Farrell: 2nd Witch
Nicholas Charles: Macduff's son
Noel Howlett: Doctor of Physic
Preston Lockwood: Caithness
Stephen Thorne: 2nd Murderer/Menteith
Sylvia Coleridge: 3rd Witch
Timothy West: Porter
Walter Fitzgerald: King Duncan
Music: John Buckland
Dir: John Tydeman
"Paul Scofield
kept
the listener with him for every inch of the way...Mr. Scofield's performance
was ... quivering
with sensibility and never far from hysteria, working from one appalling action
to the next with the perverted energy of a man cutting across the grain of
his nature. Mr. Scofield's mastery of verse is unsurpassed by anyone except
Gielgud in the modern theatre, and here his exhausted pauses and savagely renewed
attack on the lines turned the language itself into a physical symbol of the
moral laws whose weight he was heaving aside". "Getting Across the Inwardness
of Macbeth", The Times of London, 30 April 1966.
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL (CAEDMON RECORDS, 1968)
Verse play about the martyrdom of St. Thomas of Canterbury by T.S. Eliot
Cast:
Paul Scofield, Cyril Cusack, Julian Glover, Michael Gwynn, Alec McCowen,
Geoffrey Dunn, Anthony Nicholls, Patrick Magee, Harry
Andrews,
Douglas
Wilmer, James Hayeter, Michael Aldridge, Cathleen Nesbitt, Glenda Jackson,
Wendy Hiller, June Jago, Stephen Moore
Dir: Howard Sackler
PERICLES
(CAEDMON RECORDS, 1968)
Shakespeare Recording Society production.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Judi Dench, Felix Aylmer, Miriam Karlan, Charles Gray, John Laurie, Jack Gwillim, Daniel Thorndike, Arthur Hewlett, Jack May, George Howe, David Dodimead, James Mellor, Edward Hardwicke, Tarn Bassett, Pauline Jameson, Susan Engel, Judi Dench, Miriam Karlin
Dir: Howard Sackler. Music: Marc Wilinson
INTERVIEW: HOTEL IN AMSTERDAM (1968)
Scofield
interviewed about John Osborne's play "Hotel in Amsterdam," and his approach
to the role he plays.
Interviewer: Francis Crowdy
MACBETH
(1968)
Live audio recording of a production at the Aldwych Theatre (London)
Cast: Paul Scofield, Vivian Merchant, Elizabeth Spriggs, Ian Richardson, others.
Dir: Peter Hall
A BOX AT THE CAEDMON THEATRE (CAEDMON RECORDS, 1969)
A sampler of performances on Caedmon Records. Excerpts from Paul Scofield's Caedmon recordings of Hamlet, Pericles, King Lear, The Poetry of Dryden, The Family Reunion and Murder in the Cathedral. There are also excerpts from the Caedmon recordings of John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Edith Evans, and Vanessa Redgrave.
ONE
WORD OF TRUTH/SOLZHENITSYN (1970)
English translation of Solzhenitsyn's address for the 1970 Nobel Prize
for Literature
ceremony.
Charity fundraiser to raise money for converting St George's Church, Islington, into an Elizabethan theatre.
"The church fell into disuse in the early 1960s, but, because of its circular core, it found a new congregation. After campaigning for several years, the actor George Murcell was able to buy the property and, in the 1970s, open St. George's Elizabethan Theatre. Murcell aimed to present Shakespeare's plays in the round, as they were produced in the 16th century, and to give young actors a classical training. The venture was never wholly successful, with funding always a problem. By the late 1980s it had fallen dark..." To learn more, go to the London Cross web site.
Paul
Scofield, John Neville, Alec McCowen, Eric Porter, Anna Massey,
Moira Lister, Christopher Plummer, Dorothy Tutin, George
Murcell and others with the St George's
Cauzona.
Produced and directed by George Murcell.
Archive recording of John Mortimer's adaptation of "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick" by Carl Zuckmayer. National Theatre performance recorded at the Old Vic.
Cast:
Paul Scofield, Ronald Pickup, Charles Kay, Bernard Gallagher,
Jim Dale, others.
Dir:
Frank Dunlop
Rebroadcast of the 1954 radio drama. For description click here.
FACADE;
AN ENTERTAINMENT (1972)
Poetry by Dame Edith Sitwell and music by William Walton. Facade is
"an
enquiry 'into the effect on rhythm, and on speed, of the use of rhymes, assonances
and
dissonances, placed outwardly and inwardly (at different places in the line)
and in most elaborate patterns'." - http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2001/june01/walton.htm
Cast: Paul Scofield, Peggy Ashcroft
OTHELLO
(1972)
Radio adaptation of the Shakespeare play. It was later released as a 2-CD Set
under the title of BBC Radio Collection: Othello.
"This was the first time Paul Scofield played Othello. For his views on performing
the title role for this production see his interview with Robert Ottoway in
Radio Times, entitled 'I have undertaken Othello now because I am ready to
it justice' (11-17 November 1972, p. 3). Commercially released on as audiocassette
by BBC Audiobooks Ltd (12 September 1988) but seems to be out of distribution."
Source: http://test.bufvc.ac.uk/stable/shakespeare/index.php/title/AV67591
(accessed 7/23/09)
Cast:
Paul Scofield: Othello
Rosalind Shanks: Desdemona
Nicol Williamson: Iago
Martin Jarvis: Michael Cassio
Hannah Gordon: Emilia
Brian Haines: Senator (2)
Francis de Wolff: Brabantio
Godfrey Kenton: Duke of Venice
John Ruddock: Senator (1)
John Rye: Lodovico
Malcolm Terris: Montano
Martin Friend: Gratiano
Peter Egan: Roderigo
Rosalind Adams: Bianca
Dir: John Tydeman
Adaptation of Jeremy Sanford's play, Smiling David : the story of David Oluwale, about a Nigerian drowned in a Leeds river and the agencies implicated in the events. Broadcast on Radio Brighton, September 1972.
Cast:
Paul Scofield, Edward Chapman, Peter Cleall, David Collings, Rita
Davies, Mona Hammond, Ram John Holder, Zara Jaber, Horace James, Desmond
Newling, Bob
Okenedo, Peter Pacey, Renu Setna, Madhav Sharma, Pamela Slade, Eddie Tagoe, Lockwood
West.
Dir: Keith Slade
INTERVIEW WITH ALAN HARDOCK / MEET THE BRITISH (1972)
Interview. Scofield speaks about his reluctance to do films and his criteria for selecting roles.
Archival recording. Christopher Hampton's play examines colonialism, revolutionary movements and the eradication of indigenous peoples.
Dir:
Robert Kidd
Cast: Paul
Scofield, Tom Conti, Michael Pennington, Rona Anderson, Leonard Kavanagh, Gordon
Sterne, A.J. Brown, Frank Singuineau, Geoffrey Palmer, Terence Burns, Glyn Grain,
George Baisley, Lynda Dagley, Thelma Kidger, Donna Louise, Eddy Nedari, J.C.
Shepherd.
Reading
of Thomas Mann's novella.
Dir: John Tydeman
The British Library also has a two-part Death in Venice. Their database lists the director as Frederick Bradnum. I'm not sure if this represents two seperate recordings or an archival error. If anybody knows whether there are indeed two BBC recordings of Death in Venice with Scofield, please let me know.
Tribute honoring RSC founding member Max Adrian's career in the theatre which spanned nearly 50 years including revue, classics, musical comedy and solo performance.
Cast: Eric Porter,
Paul Scofield, Peter Hall, Laurier Lister, Charles Lefeaux
Producer: John
Knight
Interview.
Scofield and Laurence Olivier protest the treatment of Soviet dancers Valery
and Galina Panov.
Interviewer: Annabel Dilke; Intro: John Tidmarsh.
A celebration of the life of Lilian Baylis, Manager of The Old Vic Theatre, 1912-37.
Cast:
Derek
Parker, Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft, Barbara Jefford, Nigel Stock,
Anna Carteret, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Robert Lang, Paul Scofield, Gawn Grainger,
John Clements, Edith Evans, Ninette De Valois, John Gielgud, Flora Robson,
Marius Goring, Ralph Richardson, Sybil Thorndike.
Film director Fred Zinneman, (A Man for all Seasons, High Noon, From Here to Eternity) interviewed on the acting of Paul Scofield.
PRESENT
LAUGHTER (1974)
Noel Coward play. Scofield stars as talented, hedonistic, self-absorbed Noel
Coward alter-ego Gary Essendine.
Prod: Ian Cotterell
Cast:
| Paul Scofield-Garry Essendine |
| Joy Parker - Liz Essendine |
| Miriam Margolyes - Daphnae Stillington |
| David Timson - Roland Maule |
| Fenella Fielding - Joanna Lyppiatt |
| Patricia Routledge - Monica Reed |
| Diana Olsen - Miss Erikson |
| Alan Rowe - Henry Lyppiatt |
| Timothy Bateson - Fred |
| Vernon Joyner - Morris Dixon | Betty Huntley Wright - Lady Saltburn |
Monologue of the writings of Victorian naturalist Richard Jefferies.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Roger Frith
Radio adaptation of the Shakespeare play by Ian Cotterell.
Cast:
Paul Scofield: Prospero
Jane Knowles: Miranda
Ronnie Stevens: Ariel
Patrick Stewart: Caliban
Richard Kay: Ferdinand
Alan Rowe Master of the Ship/Francisco
Anthony Daniels: Adrian
Charles Kay: Sebastian
Doreen Walker: Singer (Juno)
John Justin: Alonso
Michael Spice: Antonio
Patricia Hooper: Singer (Iris)
Prudence Lloyd: Singer (Ceres)
Rory Kinnear: Stephano
Terence Scully: Trinculo
Timothy Bateson: Gonzalo
William Sleigh: Boatswain
Dir:
Ian Cotterell. Music composed by David Cain, and played by Mike Westbrook,
Clive Heath, Christopher Hogwood, Brian Godding, Butch Potter, John Mitchell
and Tristan Fry.
Archival
recording of the Leeds Playhouse production.
Dir: John
Harrison
Cast:
| Paul Scofield - Prospero | John Franklyn - Robbins - Gonzalo |
| Nicky Guadagni - Miranda | Ian Barritt - Adrian |
| Sam Dastor - Ariel | Martin Jacobs - Francisco |
| Peter Gordon - Caliban | John Sommerville - Ferndinand |
| Tony Steedman - Alonso | Ronnie Stevens - Trinculo |
| Hugh Ross - Sebastian | Paul Brooke - Stephano |
| Frederick Bartman - Antonio | Chris Auvache - a master |
| James Duggan - a bosun |
PRIVATE
LIVES (1975)
Noel Coward Play, Saturday Night theatre. Eliot and Amanda have divorced
each other but now they are thrown together under the strangest of circumstances;
they
find
themselves in adjacent hotel honeymoon suites. Reissued as a part of the
BBC Audio Collection as Noel
Coward
Double
Bill: Private Lives & Hayfever. Also found on a BBC America audio cassette,
PRIVATE
LIVES/PRESENT LAUGHTER (1989). Rereleased in CD format by BBC, February
2010, http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2010/02_february/classic_radio_theatre.shtml.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Patricia Routledge
THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND (1975)
Reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins poem.
Dir: Shaun MacLoughlin
Readings from St. Augustine.
Dir: Peter de Rosa
A reading of Thomas Mann's novella.
Dir: Frederick Bradnum. [Note: Garry O'Connor's book lists another BBC recording of Death in Venice made in 1973.]
From
Radio Times:
Radio 3, 9.30
A College in Purer Air by Lesley Montgomery with Paul Scofield and
Haydn Jones.
A picture of Lord Falkland and his circle at his house at Great Tew in the
days immediately before the English Civil War. Told largely in the words of
the Earl of Clarendon. ‘They frequently resorted and dwelt with him,
as in a college situated in a purer air, so that his house was a university
bound in a lesser volume.’
Producer: John Scotney
Cast: Paul Scofield, Haydn Jones
Unfortunately neither the British Library nor the BBC Sound Archive appear
to have retained this broadcast. If someone, somewhere made an
off-air recording, please e-mail me.
Tribute. The life of theatre impresario Sir Peter Daubeny.
Cast:
Paul Scofield, Peter Ustinov, Richard Attenborough, Martin Esslin, Lynn Fontanne,
Hermione Gingold, Peter Hall, Terry Hands, Harold Hobson, Alfred Lunt, Micheál
MacLiammhóir, Yehudi Menuhin
Prod: Bernard Krichefski
BBC
Adaptation of the Book of Job. Scofield plays Job. The 42 chapters of "The
Book of Job" as contained in the Authorized
Version of the Bible have been shortened and arranged into a philosophical
drama by Pamela Gravett.
Cast:
Paul Scofield ; Robert Harris; John Rowe, Christopher Bidmead, Michael Deacon,
Steve Hodson, Jeffrey Segal, Jane Wenham, Peter Woodthorpe, Godfrey Kenton,
Malcolm Hayes
Dir: Ian Cotterell. Musical score composed by Terence Allbright.
Radio
adaptation of the play by Athol Fugard.
Dir: Jenny Colvan
A reading from the works of Victorian nature writer Richard Jeffries. The Richard Jeffries Society Newsletter for 2008 notes that when Scofield was made an honorary member of the society, he wrote, "I admire and feel very much for his writings. I was brought up in the village of Hurstpierpoint in Sussex, an area which was close to him, and indeed spent much of my time on Woolstonbury... I didn't know that this was his hill as well as mine."
The Jeffries Society has a tape of this performance.
Produced by Keith Slade
A PLACE OF MARTYRS: THE STORY OF ROBBEN ISLAND (1976)
A history of the island where Nelson Mandela was held prisoner during apartheid. For 300 years it was used by Dutch and British as a dumping ground for 'undesirables.'
Cast: Paul Scofield, Trader Faulkner, Peter Chaze, Michael Shannon,
Neville Jason, Mel Oxley, Peter Bartlett, Elaine Loudon, Alfred Hoffman, Glyn
Jones,
Jonathan Scott, Anne Rosenfeld, Michale Goldie, Tom Watson, Joy Parker, David
Graham, Michael Tudor Barnes and Alton Kumalo.
Producer: Christopher Venning. Author: Mary Benson
"A
Radio Music-Drama by Christopher Whelen."
Henry Sparks, a civil servant working on a secret project,
has had a nervous breakdown. He's recovering in a small Dutch town and
has
become
intrigued
by a 17th
century
painting
entitled "Antechamber," in the local museum. He begins to believe that
the painting changes in ways that mirror events in his life.
| Paul Scofield - Henry Sparks | Jo Manning Wilson - Small boy |
| Nicolette McKenzie -Rachel Brewster | Douglas Blackwell - Henry's father |
| Christopher Bidmead -Willem | Jean England - Henry as a boy |
| Paul Meier - Cupcake | Leslie Heritage - doctor |
| Joan Matheson - Professor Martha Spellborn | Olwen Griffiths - Celia, aged ten) |
| Jeffrey Segal - Dr Johann Weg | |
| Dir: Martin Esslin | |
| Music: Christopher Whelen with the English Chamber Orchestra | |
MOELWYN MERCHANT TALKS WITH HIS FRIENDS (1976?)
Six half-hour interviews. Interviewees are, #1. Tanya Moseiwitsch, #2. Charles Causley, #3. Peter Peers, #4. Joseph Hermann, #5. Olivia Manning and #6. Paul Scofield.
Archival recording of the National Theatre Production of Ben Johnson's play. You can read a review here.
Dir: Peter Hall
Forty-five rpm recording of the musical score by Harrison Birtwistle.
Songs:
Side One
1. Come, My Celia
2. You That Would Last Long
Side Two
1. Fools, They Are The Only Nation
2. Had Old Hippocrates
Cast: Imogen Claire, Ben Kingsley, John-Angelo Messana, David Rappaport, Paul Scofield.
Episode 12 of a 26-part serial entitled VIVAT REX, an Elizabethan history play that encompassed the reign of Edward II to Henry VI. VIVAT REX was presented by BBC Radio 4 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. This series was issued by the BBC Transcription Service on Transcription Discs. All 26-parts of the Vivat Rex series survive in the British Library's BBC Sound Archive, along with a reel (dated 24 NOV 1976) compiling extracts of music (by Christopher Whelan) and voices from the series.
This episode is based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V. Scofield, as the Chorus, does the "Oh, for a muse of fire" speech. This is a two-part episode. Part 1 is 27 minutes, 01 seconds long. Part 2 is 27 minutes, 28 seconds long.
Cast
List :
Chorus................................................Paul Scofield
Falstaff.............................................Anthony
Quayle
Henry V...............................................Martin Jarvis
Justice Swallow.........................................Roy Dotrice
Davy.................................................James
Thomason
Warwick...................................................Alan Rowe
Lord Chief Justice....................................Robert Harris
Prince John.............................................Colin Baker
Gloucester...........................................Bernard
Hepton
Clarence...........................................Geoffrey Collins
Bardolph............................................Timothy Bateson
Justice Silence.....................................Richard Goolden
Pistol..................................................John
Hollis
Archbishop of Canterbury.........................Cyril Shaps
Exeter.................................................Brian
Haines
Westmoreland...........................................David Graham
French Ambassador.....................................William Eedle
Nyz...................................................Malcolm
Hayes
Mistress Quickly.....................................June Whitfield
Falstaff's Page....................................Crispin Gillbard
Adaptation by Martin Jenkins. Produced by Gerry Jones. The music for the series is composed by Christopher Whelen and played by members of the English Chamber Orchestra.
Episode 13 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode is based on Shakespeare's Henry V. VIVAT REX was presented by BBC Radio 4 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
Cast List:
Henry
V...............................................Martin Jarvis
Chorus................................................Paul Scofield
Prince John.............................................Colin Baker
Exeter.................................................Brian
Haines
Westmoreland................................... David Graham
Scroop/Governor of Harfler.......................Peter Howell
Cambridge/Rambures..............................William
Eedle
Grey/Macmorris............................................John Rowe
The French King........................................Hugh Dickson
The Dauphin............................................Sean Barrett
The Constable.........................................Michael Spice
Bardolph............................................Timothy
Bateson
Nym...................................................Malcolm Hayes
Falstaff's Page....................................Crispin Gillbard
Pistol..................................................John
Hollis
Fluellen...............................................Gerald James
Gower.............................................Geoffrey Matthews
Princess Katherine.................................Angela Pleasence
Alice...............................................Yvonne
Coulette
Montjoy...............................................Neville Jason
Gloucester...........................................Bernard Hepton
Orleans.............................................John
Pullen
Adaptation by Martin
Jenkins. Produced by Gerry Jones. The music for the series is composed by Christopher
Whelen and played by members of the English Chamber Orchestra.
Episode 14 of a 26-part serialisation of the Vivat Rex series (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins.This episode is based on Shakespeare's Henry V. VIVAT REX was presented by BBC Radio 4 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
Cast List:
Chorus................................................Paul
Scofield
Henry V...............................................Martin Jarvis
Erpingham............................................James
Thomason
Duke of Gloucester...................................Bernard Hepton
Pistol..................................................John
Hollis
Captain Gower.....................................Geoffrey Matthews
Fluellen...............................................Gerald
James
Court/Herald........................................Michael Harbour
Bates/Duke of Bourbon..............................Clifford Norgate
Williams..............................................John
Baddeley
Duke of Orleans.........................................John Pullen
Louis the Dauphin......................................Sean Barrett
Constable.............................................Michael
Spice
Ranbures..............................................William Eedle
Grandpre................................................Rod Beacham
Prince John of Lancaster................................Colin Baker
Earl of Westmoreland...................................David Graham
Duke of Exeter.........................................Brian Haines
Talbot..................................................Clive
Swift
Montjoy...............................................Neville Jason
French Soldier........................................Jeffrey Segal
Falstaff's Page....................................Crispin Gillbard
Messenger................................................
John Rowe
Adaptation by Martin
Jenkins. Produced by Gerry Jones. The music for the series is composed by Christopher
Whelen and played by members of the English Chamber Orchestra.
Episode 15 of a 26-part serialisation of the Vivat Rex series based on Shakespeare's Henry V and Henry VI, (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins.
Cast
List :
Chorus................................................Paul Scofield
Singing Monk............................................Alan Dudley
Capt. Gower.......................................Geoffrey Matthews
Fluellen...............................................Gerald
James
Pistol..................................................John Hollis
French King............................................Hugh Dickson
Queen Isabel..........................................Shirley Dixon
Henry V...............................................Martin Jarvis
Burgundy...........................................Michael
Aldridge
Katherine..........................................Angela Pleasence
Alice...............................................Yvonne Goulette
Talbot..................................................Clive
Swift
Exeter.................................................Brian Haines
Prince John of Lanc.....................................Colin Baker
Gloucester...........................................Bernard
Hepton
Winchester.............................................Peter Howell
Westmoreland...........................................David Graham
Messenger/ Soldier....................................Alaric Cotter
Charles the Dauphin........................................John Rye
Alencon........................................Michael
Tudor Barnes
Reignier.............................................James Thomason
Bastard of Orleans...................................William Sleigh
Joan of Arc...........................................Hannah Gordon
Master Gunner........................................Michael Goldie
Adaptation by Martin Jenkins. Produced by Gerry Jones. The music for the series
is composed by Christopher Whelen and played by members of the English Chamber
Orchestra.
Radio adaptation of the novel by Boris Pasternak.
Cast:
Paul Scofield-Doctor Zhivago; Rosalie Crutchley-Lara; David Markham-Pasha
Antipov;
Geoffrey Wincott-Komarovsky; Joy Parker-Tonya;
Deryck Guyler-Narrator.
Radio version of Shakespeare's play.
Cast:
Anna
Massey-Princess of France; Paul Scofield-Don Adriano de Armado; Michael Kitchen-Ferdinand,
King of Navarre; John McEnery-Berowne; Eileen Atkins-Rosaline; Andrew Branch-Dumaine;
Christopher Biggins-Anthony Dull; Clifford
Abrahams-Moth; Clifford Rose-Nathaniel; Denise Coffey-Jaquenetta; Elizabeth
Proud-Maria; Eric Allan-Monsieur Marcade; Frances Jeater-Katherine; Jeremy
Clyde-Longaville; John Baddeley-Costard; John Rye-Boyet; Robert Stephens-Holofernes.
Dir: David
Spenser. Music:
Composed by Derek Oldfield and performed by the Allegro Ensemble.
Radio play specially written for Paul Scofield by Gabriel Josipovici. On his death bed, the poet Vergil, questions whether his life had meaning and whether his glorification of Rome was justified.
Cast:
Paul Scofield
Dir:
Guy Vaesen
DOCTOR
ZHIVAGO (1979)
Audiobook. Reading of Boris Pasternak's novel. Produced by Graham Goodwin,
Music for Pleasure. Playing time: 3 hours.
Radio adaptation of the novel by Malcolm Lowry.
Cast: Paul
Scofield,
Norman Rodway, June Tobin, Denys
Hawthorne, William Fox, David
March, Trader Faulkner, Gordon
Dulieu, Gregory de Polnay, Eva Stuart, Andrew Branch, John Bull
Dir: John
Tydeman, Music: Graham Collier
A VOICE FROM THE CHORUS (1979)
A radio adaptation of Russian dissident Andrei Sinyavsky, a.k.a. Abram Tertz's book, A Voice From the Chorus, which is an account of his detention in Soviet forced-labor camps from 1966 to 1971 for writing anti-Soviet propaganda. Adapted from the translation of Max Hayward & Kyril Fitzlyon by Hallam Tennyson.
Cast:
Paul Scofield: Voice 82
Danny Schiller: Voices 10, 20, 25, 47, 57, 62, 83
Eric Allan: Voices 12, 27,
32, 73
Sean Barrett: Voices 1, 6, 9, 29, 42, 44, 44, 60, 66
Timothy Bateson: Voices
5, 19, 47, 55
Timothy Bentinck: Voices 4, 22, 24, 48, 50
Malcolm Hayes: Voices 2, 15, 21,
31, 40, 46, 52, 54, 59, 69
John Hollis: Voices 3, 14, 26, 39, 43, 51, 58, 63,
68
Stefan Kalipha: Voices 16, 28, 53, 71
Harold Kasket: Voice 29A
Hilda Kriseman: Voices 11, 17, 30, 49, 61, 70
Geoffrey Matthews: Voices 18,
56
Philip Sully: Voices 13, 23, 38, 67
David Swift: Singer
Songs composed by Stephen Oliver.
Producer: Hallam Tennyson
A 15-minute radio play about the link between magic and technology. In the words of Arthur C. Clarke, Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Cast:
Paul Scofield, Eric Allan
Dir: Jane Morgan
Dir: Gordon House
MAC
AND MRS. FAUST (1979)
Dir: Ian Cotterell
Live recording of the National Theatre (Olivier) Production. Read a review.
| Paul Scofield - Othello | Glyn Baker-Officer |
| Felicity Kendal - Desdemona | Gordon Whiting - Messenger |
| Michael Bryant - Iago | Mark Dignam - Duke of Venice |
| Stephen Moore - Michael Cassio | Michael Beint - 3rd Gentleman |
| Yvonne Bryceland - Emilia | Michael Gambon - Roderigo |
| Adam Norton - 1st Gentleman | Nicholas Selby - Lodovico |
| Brian Kent - Senator (1) | Penelope Wilton - Bianca |
| Daniel Thorndike -Gratiano | Peter Needham - Montano |
Elliott Cooper - 2nd
Gentleman |
Roger Gartland - Clown |
| Glenn Williams - Sailor | William Sleigh - Senator (2) |
Dir:
Peter Hall; Music: Dominic Muldowney. Attention, Brass
Monkey fans: Howard Evans plays trumpet on this one. |
|
Live audio recording of the National Theatre (Olivier) production of Peter Shaffer's play. "Its plot enlarges on Alexander Pushkin's work 'Mozart and Salieri' itself based on rumours recorded in Beethoven's conversation books and current in Vienna at Salieri's death."
Cast:
Paul Scofield-Salieri,
Simon Callow-Mozart,
Felicity Kendal-Constanze Weber Mozart,
Donald Gee-Venticelli,
Susan Gilmore-Citizen of Vienna,
John Normington-Joseph, II,
William Sleigh-Major Domo,
Willoughby Goddard,
Basil Henson-Johann Kilian von Strack,
Nicholas Selby-Baron van Swieten,
Peggy Marshall,
Glenn Williams,
Robin Meredith,
Nigel Bellairs,
Anne Sedgwick,
Dermont Crowley-Venticelli, Philip Locke-Ignaz Greybig, Andrew Cruickshank-Count
Orsini-Rosenberg
Dir: Peter Hall; Musical Director: Harrison Birtwistle; Forte Piano: Christopher
Kite
Information on
the BBC Radio Production is here.
This production was originally broadcast in 1954 and subsequently released on audio tape (as a part of the obscure educational BBC Study Library) c1980. It was available for many years from a media company called Audio Forum, however I am informed they no longer have the right to any BBC material.
The cast:
Delio, friend to Antonio ... Godfrey Kenton
Antonio, steward of the household of the Duchess ... Tony Britten
Bosola, gentleman of the horse to the Duchess ... Paul Rogers
The Cardinal, brother to Ferdinand and the Duchess ... Esme Percy
Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, brother to the Duchess ... Paul Scofield
Silvio, a courtier ... Alec Gunn
Grisolan, a courtier ... Leonard Trolley
Duchess of Malfi ... Peggy Ashcroft
Cariola, her woman ... Rosalie Crutchley
Castruccio, a courtier ... Cyril Shaps
Roderigo ... Manning Wilson
Julia, Castruccio's wife and the Cardinal's mistress ... Mary Wimbush
A Doctor ... James Dale
The Marquis of Pescara ... Geoffrey Matthews
Old Lady ... Nan Marriott-Watson
with Rupert Davies, Gregor Hagan and Alan Reid
Music composed
by James Bernard and conducted by John Hollingsworth
Produced by R.D. Smith
THAT MOST DESPICABLE RACE (Early 1980s?--unable to find exact date)
Discussion of acting by leading actors. Subjects discussed include audiences, acting as the mirror of nature, film and theatre, acting technique, the Japanese Lear, theatrical heritage, "Ring around the Moon" and "Lear," William Gaskill's production of The Recruiting Officer," Olivier's Othello, Granville Barker's idea of a national theatre, theatre and other media.
Participants: Peter O'Toole, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Dorthy Tutin, Paul Scofield, Laurence Olivier, Peter Hall, Peggy Ashcroft, Harold Hobson, Robert Stephens, Maggie Smith, Irene Worth.
BBC fifteen-minute play. Adaptation of a story by Pushkin.
Cast:
Paul Scofield, Simon Callow, Raymond Alston (pianist)
Dir: Piers
Plowright
Readings from the autobiography of the Victorian naturalist, Richard Jeffries.
Dir: Keith Slade
THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND; KEATS ODES; RALPH RICHARDSON READS ANDREW MARVELL (1981)
"A BBC study tape distributed in the U.S.A. by Audio Forum." Probably a reissue of Scofield's 1975 reading of The Wreck of the Deutschland for the BBC.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Ralph Richardson, Martin Jarvis.
DON
QUIXOTE (1982)
"An epic play
in
23 scenes." Live recording of
the National Theatre (Olivier) Production of Keith Dewhurst’s version of
Don Quixote.
Cast: Tony Haygarth, others
Dir: Bill
Bryden, Music Dir: John Tams.
Tale of revenge and madness inspired by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (1982)
Radio adaptation of the Shakespeare play.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (1983)
National Theatre (Great Britain): Cottesloe. House recording for archival purposes.
Cast:
Edward de Souza: Theseus
Marsha Hunt:
Hippolyta
Paul Scofield: Oberon
Susan Fleetwood: Titania
Jack Shepherd: Puck (Robin Goodfellow)
Bernadette Shortt: Hermia
David Rintoul: Demetrius
Derek Newark: Nick Bottom
Desmond Adams: Fairy
Edna Dore: First Fairy (Fairy)
J.G. Devlin: Peter Quince
James Ellis: Egeus
James Grant: Snug
Jennifer Caron Hall: Helena
John Tams: Robin Starveling
Karl Johnson: Lysander
Maggi-Anne Lowe: Fairy
Mark Brignal: Fairy
Michael Gregory: Fairy
Philip Langham: Fairy
Roger Davidson: Fairy
Stephen Petcher: Francis Flute
Tamara Hinchco: Fairy
Tony Haygarth: Tom Snout
Trevor Ray: Philostrate
Dir:
Bill Bryden, Music Dir: John Tams.
Sunday Play. Radio version of the National Theatre production. Scofield played Salieri.
Cast:
Paul Scofield-Salieri, Simon Callow-Mozart, Felicity Kendal-Constanze Mozart,
John Normington-Joseph II, Nicholas Selby-Gottfried, Baron Van Sweiten, Willoughby
Goddard-Count Franz Orsini Rosenberg, Basil Henson-Johann Kilian Von Strack,
Donald Gee-Venticelli, Dermot Crowley-Venticelli, Nigel
Bellairs-Citizen of Vienna,
Susan Gilmore-Citizen of Vienna, Peggy Marshall-Citizen of Vienna, Robin
Meredith-Citizen of Vienna, Anne Sedgwick-Citizen of Vienna, William Sleigh-Citizen
of Vienna, Glenn Williams-Citizen of Vienna.
Dir: Peter Hall
Producer: David Spenser
Information on the National Theatre version is here.
A mother tells a priest of her son's blasphemy. Part of the Barnes' People Series.
Cast:
Dame Joan Plowright and Paul Scofield.
Dir: Ian Cotterell
THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL (1983)
A reading of Chesterton's speculative fiction of a future Balkanized London where Notting Hill declares its independence and life gets complicated.
SCENES FROM A VOYAGE TO THE INDIES (1984)
"The Monday Play"
Dir:
John Harrison
Cast:
| Paul Scofield - Captain Josiah Bennett | Linda Gardner - Lucy Wedderburn |
| David McAlister - Matthew Cropper | Francis Middleditch - Arthur Cosway |
| Brian Sothwood - Bobby Stark | Peter Laird - Donald Gowdie |
| Maurice Denham - Judge Henry Wedderburn |
Cast: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Timothy West, Peter Orr, Nigel Hawthorne, others.
HEART
OF DARKNESS (1984)
Audio Book. A reading of the novel by Joseph Conrad.
MORE GRIMM'S FAIRYTALES (1985)
Grimm's Fairytales read by several actors. Scofield reads The Little Farmer, Four Accomplished Brothers, and Queen Bee. Other readers are Joy Parker, Timothy West and Geraldine Newman.
A series of monologues by the main characters involved in the Trojan War. "A masterly one-hour version of the fall of Troy. The story is basically as we know it but written in modern prose of high poetic quality." (B A Young, Financial Times). The prequel for Troy.
Cast: Paul Scofield-Priam, King of Troy; Ronald Pickup-Hector; Susan Fleetwood-Andromache; Michael Kitchen-Paris; Deborah Makepiece-Cassandra; George Baker-Menelaus; Janet McTeer-Helen; Michael Pennington-Achilles.
Music by David Chilton and Nick Russell-Pavier
Dir: Jeremy Mortimer
THE
MASTERWORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (1987)
Published by Newman
Books-On-Cassette, 1987. Selections include "The Unparalleled Adventure
of
One
Hans
Pfaall," "A
Descent into the Maelstrom," "Annabelle Lee," "Eldorado," and "The
Bells." Short stories such as "MS. Found in a Bottle," "The
Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade," "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains," and "Some
Words with a Mummy."
A QUIVER FULL OF ARROWS (1987)
Audiobook. Short stories by Jeffrey Archer. Titles are: One-night Stand, The Perfect Gentleman, Broken Routine, Henry's Hiccup.
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (1987)
Audiobook. Reading of the Dickens novel.
HAMLET/THE 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN (1987)
Appears to be selections from the HAMLET Scofield did for CAEDMON RECORDS in 1963. This is one segment in a larger 8-cassette anthology set that includes a wide variety of selections from great literature read by everyone from Anthony Quayle to Leonard Nimoy.
DICKENS: NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (1988)
Audiobook. Reading of the Dickens novel. Highly abridged.
Audio cassette release of August 1972 BBC R-3 broadcast
Cast: Paul Scofield, Nicol Williamson, Peter Egan. Francis
De Wolff, Martin Jarvis, Godfrey Kenton, Rosalind
Shanks, Hannah Gordon, Rosalind Adams.
Dir: Directed
By John Tydeman.
A reading of the Dickens classic. Two audio cassettes.
Audiobook. A reading of the Dickens classic. Two audio cassettes. Three hours listening.
Audiobook. Is Hitler dead? A girl, two nerds and an Israeli secret agent attempt to thwart a neo-Nazi plot. Reading of a spy adventure by Irving Wallace.
PRIVATE LIVES/PRESENT LAUGHTER (1989)
Audio Cassette issued by BBC America incorporating 2 Noel Coward radio plays.
Private Lives: Elyot and Amanda have divorced each other but now they are thrown together under the strangest of circumstances; they find themselves in adjacent hotel honeymoon suites. Also reissued as a part of the BBC Audio Collection as Noel Coward Double Bill: Private Lives & Hayfever.
Present Laughter: Scofield stars as talented, hedonistic, self-absorbed Noel Coward alter-ego Gary Essendine.
ARTHUR — THE KING: A 7 PART SERIES BY GRAEME FIFE (1990)
A cycle of seven 45-minute radio plays based on Arthurian legend with Paul Scofield as Merlin. In his book, Radio Camelot: Arthurian Legends and the BBC, Roger Simpson ranks it as "among the greatest of all Arthurian Radio Plays...When violent thunderbolts rip through the skies, and dragons belch fire, we believe in the magic and enchantment that the play continually demands." He praises the score by Steve Faux which "combines traditional instruments with singers and electronics to create sounds that are hauntingly beautiful in themselves and yet always remain wonderfully apt across the whole range of scenes and emotions."
Each episode was organized around a single character:
Paul
Scofield played Merlin
Rupert Frazer played Tristam
Crawford Logan played Gareth
Nicolas Farrell played Lancelot
Henry Young played Galahad
Jill Balcom played Guenever
Keith Baxter played
Arthur
Music
by Steven Faux. Produced by John Powell.
Radio adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's last play.
Producer: E. CHAILLET
THE COSMIC CLOCK (1991)
"A mystery tale, erotic, ghostly and occult, of the bizarre suicide of
the Polish aristocrat Jean Potocki."
Dir: John Theocharis
DON QUIXOTE (1991)
Radio
adaptation. Scofield plays Don Quixote.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Bob Hoskins, Geoffrey Whitehead, Andrew Wincott, Elizabeth
Kelly, Terence Edmond, David Bannerman, Norman Jones,
Ben Onwukwe,
Stephen Garlick,
Jenny Howe,
Petra Markham,
Alan Barker,
Emma Gregory,
Jonathan Cullen,
James Simmons,
Carlos Douglas.
Prod: Jane Morgan, Music: Tony Bremner
No synopsis available, but one topic of the program appears to be the BBC radio adaptation of Don Quixote. Other topics include Beethoven, Vladimir Sulyagin, Royal Shakespeare Company and the Medici String Quartet.
Presenter: Paul Vaughan
Cast: Paul Scofield, Bob Hoskins, Guy Woolfenden, Peter Kemp and David Self.
THE
HOLY THIEF (1992)
Audiobook.
A reading of Ellis Peters' 'mediaeval whodunnit'....The 19th chronicle
of Brother
Cadfael. "In the spring of 1145 a precious reliquary is stolen..."
Abridged. 3 hours listening.
Dir: Kati Nicholl
A reading of the Dickens' novel, heavily abridged.
An abridged reading of the Dickens Classic.
Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry.
Dir: Katriona Wade
Play by John Harrison. A journalist uncovers the surprising past of a reclusive composer.
Cast:
Leo - Paul Scofield,
Pamela - Samantha Bond
Dir: Kay Patrick
Music: Matthew Scott
Actual title of broadcast not known. A reading of Seneca's letters. Mentioned in The Independent, 12 January 1993. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/radio--the-world-according-to-danny-baker-robert-hanks-wonders-what-a-philosopher-of-the-first-century-ad-would-have-made-of-a-radio-5-morning-show-presenter-1478066.html
THE SCIENCE FICTION OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (1993)
Probably a reissue of a portion of THE MASTERWORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (1987). Contains Some Words With a Mummy and The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade.
A reading of the Dickens novel.
DON QUIXOTE /
PURCELL (1995)
Musical.
Composed by Henry Purcell.
Conducted by Anthony Rooley. "Don Taylor's enormous, compelling play had
Durfey, Purcell and Betterton putting on a production they had supposedly cobbled
together out of Cervantes' masterpiece."-Independent
(London),
Sunday, 3
December
1995
Cast: Emma Kirkby, Roy Hudd, Evelyn Tubb, David Thomas, Consort of Musicke, The
City Waites, Purcell Simfony
Dir: Don Taylor; Musical director: Anthony Rooley
Audiobook. An abridged reading of the Dickens classic.
Audiobook. An abridged reading of the Dickens classic.
Audiobook.
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE: SHAKESPEARE'S SPEECHES (1995)
An anthology of Shakespearian speeches performed by the world's leading actors. Excerpts from a BBC production of Macbeth performed by Paul Scofield and Peggy Ashcroft. Other selections feature Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Michael Redgrave, Ian Holm, and others doing scenes from Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice and Henry V.
SCENES FROM SHAKESPEARE (1996)
Scenes from "The Merchant of Venice", "Twelfth Night", "Romeo and Juliet", "Much Ado About Nothing", "As You Like It", "Richard III", "Julius Caesar", "Macbeth", "Hamlet", "Antony and Cleopatra", "King Lear", "Othello", "The Winter's Tale" and "The Tempest". Performed by Sir John Gielgud, Sir Michael Redgrave, Sir Anthony Quayle, Paul Scofield, Albert Finney, Jeremy Brett, Dorothy Tutin, Claire Bloom and Vanessa Redgrave.
Audiobook. Abridged version of the Charles Dickens novel on 2 audio cassettes. Total Playing Time: 3 hours.
Producer: Peter Leggett
FAME AND GERARD
MANLEY HOPKINS (1997)
Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins spent his career struggling between
his
desire to serve God and his desire to be recognized as a great poet. Pamela
Gravett
tells the story and
Paul Scofield reads from Hopkins's letters and poetry.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Pamela Gravett
Dir: Keith Slade
A reading of the Dickens classic.
Trilogy of plays by Andrew Rissik telling the story of the Trojan War. Scofield plays Hermes. Companion piece to King Priam (1987)
1) King Priam and His Sons
2) The Death of Achilles
3) Helen at Ephesus.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Deborah Findlay, Julian Glover, Michael Sheen, Ian Hogg, Michael Maloney, Toby Stephens, Emma Fielding, James Laurenson, Geraldine Somerville, Eleanor Bron, David Harewood, Oliver Cotton, Lindsay Duncan, Saeed Jaffrey
Dir: Jeremy Mortimer. Music by Nick Russell-Pavier
Paul Scofield and Juliet Stevenson read a wide selection of verse, including work by WH Auden, Walter de la Mare, Sylvia Plath, sonnets from Shakespeare, Chinese lyrics translated by Helen Waddell and a cheering poem by Gavin Ewart about loving the wrong kind of people.
The BBC4 web site lists the following poems:
Sonnet 130 by
William Shakespeare
From: The Viking Portable Library - Shakespeare
Loving Unsuitable
People by Gavin Ewart
From: Gavin Ewart – Selected Poems 1933-1993
Publ: Hutchinson
From: Lyrics
from the Chinese translated by Helen Waddell
From: Chinese Lyrics
Publ: Constable
Down by the
Salley Gardens by W.B. Yeats
From: Yeats, Poems
Publ: Everyman
In Memory
of W.B. Yeats by W.H. Auden
From: W.H. Auden – Collected Poems
Publ: faber
Patterns by
Amy Lowell (This poem is only featured in the Saturday night programme)
From: The Albatross Book of Living Verse
Publ: Houghton Mifflin Co
Memorabilia by
Robert Browning (This poem is only featured in the Sunday afternoon programme)
From: The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Volume 1
Publ: John Murray
The Listeners by
Walter de la Mare
From: The Collected Poems of Walter de la Mare
Publ: faber
Silver by
Walter de la Mare
From: The Collected Poems of Walter de la Mare
Publ: faber
Musée
des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden
From: W.H. Auden – Collected Poems
Publ: faber
Dirge From
Cymbeline by Shakespeare
The Viking Portable Library - Shakespeare
SUMMER OF A DORMOUSE
(1999)
"Saturday Play." Drama by John Mortimer. An elderly man looks
back on his life and discovers a comedy of missed opportunities that passed as
swiftly
as Lord Byron's dormouse
summer. Read the Guardian
review.
Cast:
Paul
Scofield: Old
Henry
Joe
Roberts: Young
Henry
Alex Jennings:
Middle
Aged Henry
Joanna David: Fliss
Imelda Staunton: Mavis
John Rowe:
Henry's Father
Dir: Marilyn Imrie
POSTSCRIPT: MONET
IN GIVERNY (1999)
Documentary on the life and work of Claude Monet. excerpts from the artist's
letters read by Paul Scofield.
Cast: gardening correspondent Anna Pavord and art historian Paul Hayes Tucker
POSTSCRIPT:
THOROUGHLY MODERN MONET (1999)
Documentary on the life and work of Claude Monet. excerpts from the artist's
letters read by Paul Scofield.
Cast: Artist Tacita Dean, theatrical lighting designer Rick Fisher and neuropsychologist
Richard Gregory
POSTSCRIPT: THE MONET MARKET (1999)
Documentary on the life and work of Claude Monet. excerpts from the artist's letters read by Paul Scofield.
Cast: John Bellamy, Briony Fer and Maryanne Stevens
LAST DAYS
OF MANKIND (1999)
Adaptation
of Austrian writer Karl Kraus's prophetic satire. Paul Scofield plays The Voice
of God.
Cast: Paul Scofield,
Chris Delaney, Anna Ford, Patrick Hannaway, John Bett, Crawford Logan, Robert
David MacDonald, Stephen MacDonald, Sandy Neilson, Alison Peebles, Laurance
Rudic, Gerda Stevenson, Finlay Welsh, Sandy Welsh Matthew Whittle, Giles
Havergal.
Dir: Giles Havergal
A reading of the abridged New International version of the Bible.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Juliet Stevenson and Philip Franks
Audio
snippets of Shakespearean performances that range over decades of film, radio,
and LPs.
A dramatisation of Herman Melville's classic story of an innocent sailor hounded by a sadistic sea captain.
Cast: Paul Scofield,
Charles Simpson, Matthew Morgan, Timothy Bentinck, Nicholas Boulton, Keith
Drinkel,
David Jarvis, Ian Masters, Brian Parr and Richard Pearce.
Director: John Tydeman,
Script:
John Harrison
Radio play by
Robert Ferguson. The story of the illegitimate son and the forgotten mother
of the
great Norwegian
poet and playwright Henrik Ibsen.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Morag Hood, Edna Dore and Michael N.
Harbour. Music composed by Julie
Cooper and performed by Sophie Langdon (violin), Gordon Hunt (oboe) and
Julie Cooper (piano).
Dir: Ned Chaillet
WYSTAN (2000)
Poet W.H. Auden’s life and thought from the perspective of his New York
apartment in 1963.
Directed and written by Gordon MacDougall
Dir: Adam Lowe
ON THE TRAIN TO CHEMNITZ (2001)
Play by Peter
Tinniswood, on BBC Radio 4
Dir: Enyd Williams,
Cast: Paul Scofield, Fiona Shaw
Radio adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel that used a sanitorium to encapsulate the sick society of pre-World War I Europe.
Cast:
Paul Scofield, Robert
Whitelock, Clive Merrison,
Sian Thomas, Simon Ludders, John Hartley, Norman
Rodway, Rhodri Hugh, Richard Elfyn and
Christine
Pritchard.
Dir: Alison Hindell, with music by Colin Sell
THE
TRIAL (2001)
Radio adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial.
Dir: Keith Slade
GHOST STORIES (ULTIMATE CLASSICS) (2001)
Audio
cassette. Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens
TALE OF TWO CITIES (ULTIMATE CLASSICS) (2001)
Audio cassette. Reading of the Dickens classic.
Audio cassette. Reading of an abridged version of the Dickens classic.
ANTON IN EASTBOURNE
(2002)
Eccentric Mr. Anton returns again and again to Eastbourne in search of an elusive
woman. The last play Peter Tinniswood completed, Anton was
written
for
Scofield
to
celebrate
his
love
of
Chekhov.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Emma Fielding, Stephen Thorne
Dir: Enid Williams
Part of BBC7's
digital archive.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007q9f4
To hear A.N. Wilson
discuss the play, click here.
A new recording released to mark Scofield's eightieth birthday.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Alec McCowen, Kenneth Branagh, Harriet Walter, Sara Kestelman, Emilia Fox, Toby Stephens
Dir: Keith Slade
Audiobook. An abridged reading of the poem with Scofield as narrator.
Cast: Paul Scofield, Jill Balcon, Toby Stephens, Geraldine Fitzgerald, John McAndrew, Stephen Thorne
EMBERS
(2002)
Unabridged reading of a novel by Sándor Márai. An old Hungarian
general is living out his last days in a castle in the Carpathian mountains.
A friend who betrayed him long ago returns for a last visit.
Audiobook. Reading of an abridged version of the Dickens novel.
DIONYSOS
(2003)
Radio play by Andrew Rissik. Pentheus, King Of Thebes, tries to halt the spread
of the cult of Dionysos which threatens to undermine his authority. Scofield
plays Pentheus' grandfather, Kadmos. You can read a review here.
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Toby Stephens,
Paul Scofield,
Diana Rigg,
Roger Allam,
Pip Donaghy,
Bruce Purchase,
Jeffrey Kissoon,
Trevor Martin,
Anna Carteret,
Mali Harries, Yolanda Vazquez, Mia Soteriou
Dir:Jeremy Mortimer, Music by Mia Soteriou
GEORGE SILVERMAN'S
EXPLANATION (2003)
Afternoon Play. Adaptation of Charles Dicken's last story. "A tale
of a man writing about his unfulfilled life; and getting it all wrong in the
telling; of a boy who tries to become
an irreproachable young man but who somehow fails to escape his past."
Cast: George Silverman (narrator) Paul Scofield, Silverman
as a student Alan Cox, Silverman
as a boy Aaron Johnson, Mother/Lady
Fareway Gemma Jones, Father/The
Dean John Normington, Brother
Hawkyard David Warner, Brother
Gimblet John Tams, Silvia/Adelane
Katherine Heath, Granville & crowd
Guy Lankester
Director ... Sebastian Graham-Jones, Producer ... Nicholas Newton, Music ... John Tams
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: TS ELIOT: THE WASTE LAND & FOUR QUARTETS (2004)
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and then made into a 2 CD set.
Drama on 3:Radio adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play.Three stubborn men plunge their country into civil war. and their women deal with the consequences. Scofield plays "bitter, destructive" Bishop Nicholas
Cast: Michael
Sheen, Paul Scofield, Gerard Murphy, Sarah Badel, Ian Masters, James D'Arcy,
Ben Crowe,
David Collings, Sam Crane, Jasmine
Hyde, Maureen O'Brien, David Bannerman, John
Evitts, Paul Flida.
Dir:Martin Jenkins, translated
by Michael Meyer, Music
by Mike Sykes.
A GAME OF MARBLES
(2004)
Afternoon Play. A comedy about the Elgin Marbles broadcast to coincide
with the Athens Olympics. An exploration of taste, artistic value and national
heritage.
Cast:
Paul Scofield:
Centaur
Nicholas Boulton: Townly
Alec McCowen: Payne Knight
Robert Glenister: Elgin
Carl Prekopp: Haydon
Tracy Wiles: Elizabeth
Ian Masters: Minister
Dir: Martin
Jenkins, Script: Stephen Wyatt
Audiobook. Reading of an abridged version of the Dickens novel.
THESE I HAVE LOVED: 25 Years of Poetry Please
An hour of poetic favourites, selected from the archives of Poetry Please going back a quarter of a century.
The poets featured include A E Housman, WB Yeats, Robert Browning, Robert Frost and D H Lawrence, and there's an impressive line-up of readers too: Paul Scofield, Pete Postlethwaite, Fiona Shaw, Timothy West, Juliet Stevenson and more.
HARD FROSTS IN
FLORENCE (2005)
"In this play specially written for Paul Scofield by David Pownall, a deeply-troubled
Michelangelo returns to Florence to view his statue of the boy David for the
last time...."
Dir: Martin Jenkins
THE
CHRONICLES OF NARNIA (2005)
1)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2) Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (2000)
3) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
4) The Silver Chair
5) The Horse and His Boy
6) The Magician's Nephew
7) The Last Battle
Cast:
Paul Scofield: storyteller,
David Suchet: Aslan
Douglas
Gresham:
the Host.
Freddie Findlay: Peter,
Elizabeth Eaton: Lucy,
Others.
THE
ESSENTIAL SHAKESPEARE LIVE (2005)
Collaboration between the Royal Shakespeare Company and the British
Library Sound Archive. Scenes and speeches from RSC Productions. Scofield is
represented by King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6. Date of Recording: 12/2/1964. Location:
Aldwych Theatre, London. Duration of recording: 8.26 minutes.
Dir:
Peter Brook
Cast:
Paul Scofield: King Lear
Edgar: Brian Murray
Earl of Gloucester: John Laurie
Drama on 3. Swan Song, by Anton Chekhov, translated by Michael Frayn. An old actor struggles to accept that his career is over. You can download the script (in a 1912 translation by Marian Fell) here.
Cast: Paul Scofield
and Alec McCowen.
Dir: by Martin Jenkins
KING LEAR ON BOXING DAY (2006)
Part of a BBC radio anniversary tribute celebrating the four hundreth anniversary of the performance of King Lear, the new play offered to King James I and his guests at Whitehall Palace on Boxing Day 1606. Presenter Francine Stock tries to evoke the mood of the period and discusses Shakespeare's reasons for writing the play with studio guests, including actors Fiona Shaw and Oliver Ford Davies; scholars Jonathan Bate, Michael Dobson, Richard Dutton, Brett Dolman and Tiffany Stern; director Richard Eyre, food historian Ivan Day and the early music ensemble Passamezzo. With recorded comments from actors who have interpreted the role including Donald Sinden, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and Paul Scofield.
Producer: Beatty Rubens
POETRY PLEASE
(2008)
Favorite poetry read by Stephen Rea, Judi Dench, Paul Scofield and Ronald Pickup.
Paul Scofield's biographer Garry O’Connor and former BBC head of radio drama John Tydeman talk about the life and career of Paul Scofield.
POETRY PLEASE
(2008)
Archival recordings of Paul Scofield reading poetry. Juliet Stevenson joined
him in 1998 to read a wide selection of verse for the programme, including work
by WH Auden, Walter de la Mare, Sylvia Plath, sonnets from Shakespeare, Chinese
lyrics translated by Helen Waddell and a cheering poem by Gavin Ewart about loving
the wrong kind of people. The BBC4 web site lists the following poems:
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
From: The Viking Portable Library - Shakespeare
Loving Unsuitable
People by Gavin Ewart
From: Gavin Ewart – Selected Poems 1933-1993
Publ: Hutchinson
From: Lyrics
from the Chinese translated by Helen Waddell
From: Chinese Lyrics
Publ: Constable
Down by the
Salley Gardens by W.B. Yeats
From: Yeats, Poems
Publ: Everyman
In Memory
of W.B. Yeats by W.H. Auden
From: W.H. Auden – Collected Poems
Publ: faber
Patterns by Amy Lowell (This poem is only featured in the Saturday night programme)
From: The Albatross Book of Living Verse
Publ: Houghton Mifflin Co
Memorabilia
by Robert Browning (This poem is only featured in the Sunday afternoon
programme)
From: The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Volume 1
Publ: John Murray
The Listeners by Walter de la Mare
From: The Collected Poems of Walter de la Mare
Publ: faber
Silver by Walter de la Mare
From: The Collected Poems of Walter de la Mare
Publ: faber
Musée des Beaux
Arts by W.H. Auden
From: W.H. Auden – Collected Poems
Publ: faber
Dirge From
Cymbeline by Shakespeare
The Viking Portable Library - Shakespeare
