Classic Drama

Thomas Mitchell (Willy Loman), Arthur Kennedy (Biff), Cameron Mitchell (Happy), Mildred Dunnock (Linda), Howard Smith (Charley), Alan Hewitt (Howard Wagner), Thomas Chalmers (Uncle Ben), Don Keefer (Bernard), Tom Pedi (Stanley), Winifred Cushing (The Woman), Constance Ford (Miss Forsythe), Hope Cameron (Letta), Ann Driscoll (Jenny) Elia Kazan (director)

Sir Ian McKellen (Prospero), Ben Onwukwe (Caliban), Emilia Fox (Miranda), Benedict Cumberbatch (Ferdinand), John McAndrew (Sebastian), Roger Hammond (Alonso), Scott Handy (Ariel), John Hodgkinson (Stephano), Ian Talbot (Trinculo), David Burke (Gonzalo), Neville Jason (Antonio)

Samuel West (Lord Windermere), Juliet Stevenson (Mrs Erlynne), Michael Sheen (Lord Darlington), Derek Waring (Lord Augustus Lorton), Peter Yapp (Mr Dumby), Nicholas Boulton (Mr Cecil Graham), Benjamin Soames (Mr Hopper), Rod Beacham (Parker), Emma Fielding (Lady Windermere), Sarah Badel (The Duchess of Berwick), Elaine Claxton (Lady Plymdale/Lady Agatha Carlisle), Delia Paton (Lady Jedburgh/Rosalie)

Juliet Stevenson (Hedda Gabler), Michael Maloney (George Tesman), Philip Voss (Judge Brack), Emma Fielding (Mrs Elvsted), Robert Glenister (Lovborg), Brenda Kaye (Aunt Juliana), Melinda Walker (Berta)

Cecil Parker (Sir Peter Teazle), Baliol Holloway (Sir Oliver Surface), Harry Andrews (Joseph Surface), Alec Clunes (Charles Surface), Claire Bloom (Lady Teazle), Dame Edith Evans (Lady Sneerwell), Athene Seyler (Mrs. Candour), George Howe (Crabtree and Moses), William Squire (Sir Benjamin Backbite, Sir Harry Bumper and Careless), Anne Leon (Maria), Peter Williams (Rowley and William), Peter Halliday (Trip), Michael Gough (Snake)

Cyril Cusack (Christopher Mahon), Siobhan McKenna (Pegeen Mike), Thomas Studley (Shawn Keogh), Seamus Kavanagh (Michael James Flaherty), John McDarby (Philly Cullen), Milo O’Shea (Jimmy Farrell), Maire Kean (Widow Quin), Maureen Cusack (Sara Tansey), May Craig (Susan Brady), Maureen Toal (Honor Blake), Harry Brogan (Old Mahon), Alex Dignam (A Town-Crier)

Read by Simon Russell Beale, Estelle Kohler, Clifford Rose, Sarah Woodward, and Daniel Philpott

Antony Sher (Shylock), Roger Allam (Antonio), Emma Fielding (Portia)

Corin Redgrave (Charles Condomine), Kika Markham (Ruth Condomine), Joanna Lumley (Elvira), Thelma Ruby (Madame Arcati), David Timson (Dr Bradman), Abigail Francis (Mrs Bradman), Cathy Sara (Maid)

Paul Scofield (King Lear), Harriet Walter (Gonerill), Sara Kestelman (Regan), Emilia Fox (Cordelia), Peter Blythe (Duke of Albany), Jack Klaff (Duke of Cornwall), Alec McCowen (Earl of Gloucester), Richard McCabe (Edgar), Toby Stephens (Edmond), David Burke (Kent), Kenneth Branagh (Fool), John McAndrew (King of Burgundy), Simon Treves (King of France), Matthew Morgan (Oswald), Steve Hodson (Curan)

Hugh Quarshie (Othello), Emma Fielding (Desdemona), Anton Lesser (Iago), Patience Tomlinson (Emilia), Roger May (Cassio), Alison Pettit (Bianca), Roy Spencer (Duke of Venice), Peter Yapp (Brabantio), John McAndrew (Roderigo), Stephen Thorne (Lodovico), Jonathan Keeble (Montano)

Read by John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast

Michael Sheen (Romeo), Kate Beckinsale (Juliet), Fiona Shaw (Nurse), Heathcote Williams (Friar Lawrence), Anton Lesser (Mercutio), Jasper Britton (Tybalt), Philip Madoc (Chorus), David Bradley (Capulet), Frances Barber (Lady Capulet), Edward de Souza (Montague), Judy Loe (Lady Montague), Ronan Vibert (Paris), Simon Harris (Benvolio)

Anton Lesser (Hamlet), Edward de Souza (Claudius), Susan Engel (Gertrude), Emma Fielding (Ophelia), Peter Jeffrey (Polonius), Sean Baker (Horatio), Jamie Glover (Laertes), Geoffrey Whitehead (Ghost/Player King), Gavin Muir (Rosencrantz/Ist Gravedigger), Peter Yapp (Guildenstern/2nd Gravedigger), Benjamin Soames (Marcellus/Cornelius/Player Queen), David Timson (Barnardo/Priest/Captain), Richard Pearce (Osric/Francisco/Voltimand), Paul Panting (Fortinbras/Reynaldo)

Samuel West (Faust), Toby Jones (Mephistopheles)