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King Lear Written By : William Shakespeare Narrator : Full Cast Production Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd Length : 2 hours 40 minutes Type : Dramatizations Classic Literature Shakespeare Audio Theater Price : $18.49 Buy Now! Colin Redgrave stars as Lear with Geraldine James as Goneril in Shakespeare's bitter tragedyof loyalty, power and politics. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard. Some of the most stirring scenes Shakespeare ever wrote vibrate with powerful resonance in this grippingly dramatic radio production. Tortured madness, pure evil and the fatal struggle for power grip the listener until the final, shockingly tragic conclusion. The play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre, and the accompanying booklet includes a scene-by-scene synopsis, full character analysis, brief biographies of the leading actors and of Shakespeare himself, as well as an essay from the producer on their interpretation of the play. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the new millennium. Written By William Shakespeare FIRST KNOWN PERFORMANCE 1606 FIRST BBC RADIO BROADCAST 2LO 11 September 1928 FIRST BROADCAST OF THIS PRODUCTION BBC Radio 3 16 September 2001 RECORDED AT On location at the Chapel at Lincoln's Inn Fields and at BBC Maida Vale London W9 Fabulous Daniel from London - 18 May 2007 Just a stunning performance. Corin Redgrave vulnerable, old and mad and at times tender - always utterly convincing. Kika Markham genuinely scary as Regan and Geraldine James almost her equal. All actors always wonderfully clear and sound effects and music only add - never intrusive. Overall a stunning performance. Other titles you may be interested in Le Morte D'Arthur Vol. 2 Written By : Sir Thomas Malory Narrator : Frederick Davidson Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Length : 17 hours 30 minutes Type : Classic Literature Price : $33.95 " Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in, delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose."--Robert Graves This... More... Return of the Native, The Written By : Thomas Hardy Narrator : Nadia May Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Length : 14 hours Type : Classic Literature Price : $26.95 Clym Yeobright, a diamond merchant in Paris, returns to his home in Egdon where he falls in love with the sensuous Eustacia Vye. She marries him, hoping he will take her away to Paris. But Eustacia’s dreams of escape are not to be realized. Clym Yeobright, the returning native, cannot bring her... More... Howards End Written By : E. M. Forster Narrator : Nadia May Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Length : 11 hours Type : Classic Literature Price : $23.95 Howard’s End is a charming country house in Hertfordshire which becomes the object of an inheritance dispute between the Wilcox family and the Schlegel sisters. Through romantic entanglements, disappearing wills, and sudden tragedy, the conflict over the house emerges as a symbolic struggle for... More... Hop Frog Written By : Edgar Allen Poe Narrator : Full Cast Production Published By : Wollcott & Sheridan Aural Performance Library Length : 34 minutes Type : Dramatizations Classic Literature Price : $9.95 A court jester seeks revenge against the king, who brutalized his love. More...