Original id:
6504
Start date:
12 July 1950
Degree of relationship to ancient play:
Translation
Production notes:
Broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, and repeated on 4 August 1950.
Media of production:
Radio
Languages:
English
Agamemnon (1950)
Companies:
Ancient works:
Information related to this production
| Script | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Agamemnon | Aeschylus |
| Agamemnon (1935) | Louis MacNeice |
| Person | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Frederick Allen | Actor | Argive Elder |
| Maurice Bannister | Actor | Argive Elder |
| Franklyn Bellamy | Actor | Watchman |
| Martin Boddey | Actor | Argive Elder |
| James Dale | Actor | Argive Elder |
| William G. Devlin (1911-1987) | Actor | Argive Elder |
| Sonia Dresdel | Actor | Clytemnestra |
| Reginald Gibbs | Actor | Argive Elder |
| Reginald Goodson | Actor | Argive Elder |
| Newton Goodson | Actor | Argive Elder |
| Deryck Guyler | Actor | Herald |
| Philip Hattey | Actor | Argive Elder |
| Carleton Hobbs | Actor | Leader of the Chorus |
| John Hotchkis | Composer | |
| Dudley Jones | Actor | Argive Elder |
| Godfrey Kenton | Actor | Aegisthus |
| Diana Maddox | Actor | Cassandra |
| Raymond Raikes | Director | |
| Norman Shelley | Actor | Argive Elder |
| Julian Somers | Actor | Agamemnon |
| Venue | Festival | Dates | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| unknown venue (England) |
| Source | Format | Location if held at the APGRD | Pagination | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agamemnon | Audiotape | |||
| BBC Archive Database print out: Agamemnon *ITEM MISSING* | Print-out | archive | ||
| Review: Broadcast drama: Greek, French and Mummerset *ITEM MISSING* | Photocopy | archive | ||
| Radio Times Listing: The Agamemnon *ITEM MISSING* | Photocopy | archive | ||
| Radio Times Listing: The Agamemnon *ITEM MISSING* | Photocopy | archive | ||
| Audio recording - Agamemnon - Part 1 | CD | archive | ||
| Audio recording - Agamemnon - Part 2 | CD | archive | ||
| International Journal of the Classical Tradition. Vol.12.2 (Fall 2005) | Journal | library | 225-227 | 2472 |
| Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004 | Book | library | 379 | |
| Engagements with Greek Drama and Homeric Epic on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s | Thesis | library | 44, 75, 104, 125-127, 202 | |
| Obituary of Raymond Raikes | Newspaper article | archive |
How to cite this production
Agamemnon (1950), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/6504 <20 September 2024>