SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet (Gielgud) (BBC Third Programme Live Broadcast, 1948)

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Hamlet (more info)
Composed by: Alice Mary Smith
John Gielgud,


1. Act 1 Scene 1 - 10:14
2. Act 1 Scene 2 - 07:41
3. Act 1 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: O that this too too solid flesh... - 07:16
4. Act 1 Scene 3 - 02:35
5. Act 1 Scene 3 (cont): Polonius: Yet here, Laertes? - 04:21
6. Act 1 Scene 4 - 02:05
7. Act 1 Scene 4 (cont): Hamlet: Angels and ministers of grace... - 02:50
8. Act 1 Scene 5 - 00:49
9. Act 1 Scene 5 (cont): Ghost: I am thy father’s spirit - 05:44
10. Act 1 Scene 5 (cont): Hamlet: O all you host of Heaven! - 06:22
11. Act 2 Scene 1 - 03:51
12. Act 2 Scene 1 (cont): Ophelia: My lord, as I was sewing in my closet... - 02:14
13. Act 2 Scene 2 - 04:09
14. Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Polonius: My liege, and madam, to expostulate... - 04:48

Hamlet (more info)
Composed by: Alice Mary Smith
John Gielgud,


1. Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Polonius: How does my good Lord Hamlet? - 02:23
2. Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Polonius: You go to seek the Lord Hamlet... - 05:24
3. Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Guildenstern: There are the players - 01:45
4. Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: Y’are welcome masters, welcome all - 02:10
5. Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): 1 Player: Anon he finds him, striking too short... - 04:36
6. Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! - 03:40
7. Act 3 Scene 1 - 02:51
8. Act 3 Scene 1 (cont): Hamlet: To be, or not to be, that is the question - 05:41
9. Act 3 Scene 1 (cont): Ophelia: Oh what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! - 02:12
10. Act 3 Scene 2 - 04:20
11. Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: They are coming to the play - 02:30
12. Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Player King: Full thirty times hath Phoebus’... - 04:14
13. Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Lucianus: Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit... - 03:06
14. Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: Oh, the recorders. Let me see one - 01:39
15. Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: ‘Tis now the very witching time of night - 00:51
16. Act 3 Scene 3 - 01:47
17. Act 3 Scene 3 (cont): Claudius: Oh my offence is rank, it smells... - 02:59
18. Act 3 Scene 3 (cont): Hamlet: Now might I do it pat... - 01:48
19. Act 3 Scene 4 - 02:44
20. Act 3 Scene 4 (cont): Hamlet: Look here upon this picture... - 02:28
21. Act 3 Scene 4 (cont): Hamlet: Save me and hover o’er me... - 02:17
22. Act 3 Scene 4 (cont): Gertrude: This is the very coinage.... - 04:23
23. Act 4 Scene 1 - 02:15
24. Act 4 Scene 2 - 01:12
25. Act 4 Scene 3 - 03:31
26. Act 4 Scene 4 - 01:45
27. Act 4 Scene 4 (cont): Hamlet: How all occasions do inform... - 02:30

Hamlet (more info)
Composed by: Alice Mary Smith
John Gielgud,


1. Act 4 Scene 5 - 01:21
2. Act 4 Scene 5 (cont): Ophelia: Where is the beauteous majesty... - 05:46
3. Act 4 Scene 5 (cont): Laertes: O thou vile king... - 01:47
4. Act 4 Scene 5 (cont): Laertes: O heat dry up my brains... - 03:47
5. Act 4 Scene 6 - 01:47
6. Act 4 Scene 7 - 07:07
7. Act 4 Scene 7 (cont): Laertes: I bought an unction of a mountebank... - 01:27
8. Act 4 Scene 7 (cont): Gertrude: There is a willow grows aslant... - 02:01
9. Act 5 Scene 1 - 03:24
10. Act 5 Scene 1 (cont): Clown: In youth when I did love... - 05:14
11. Act 5 Scene 1 (cont): Hamlet: Alas poor Yorick! - 01:56
12. Act 5 Scene 1 (cont): Hamlet: But soft, but soft! - 04:23
13. Act 5 Scene 2 - 03:40
14. Act 5 Scene 2 (cont): Osric: Your lordship is right welcome... - 06:02
15. Act 5 Scene 2 (cont): Claudius: Come Hamlet, come and take this hand... - 10:27
16. Act 5 Scene 2 (cont): Fortinbras: Where is this sight? - 03:00

Reviews

mr (May 19, 2009)
Reviewer:skitch
Sublime!! Hope some of it rubs off on to-day's classical actors....