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Author(s): Shakespeare, William
Reader(s): Gielgud, John
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Plays - Shakespeare
Period: Renaissance
Catalogue No: NA341712
Barcode: 9789626344170
Release Date: 08/2006
SHAKESPEARE, W.: Hamlet (Gielgud) (BBC Third Programme Live Broadcast, 1948) (Abridged)
This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever, and one of John Gielgud’s greatest moments. Though he went on to record it for commercial release, nothing matched this recording in the BBC studios, made before the days of editing.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Shakespeare, William - Author
Gielgud, John (Reader)
|  | 1 | Act 1 Scene 1 | 10:15 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 2 | Act 1 Scene 2 | 07:41 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 3 | Act 1 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: O that this too too solid flesh... | 07:16 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 4 | Act 1 Scene 3 | 02:36 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 5 | Act 1 Scene 3 (cont): Polonius: Yet here, Laertes? | 04:22 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 6 | Act 1 Scene 4 | 02:06 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 7 | Act 1 Scene 4 (cont): Hamlet: Angels and ministers of grace... | 02:50 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 8 | Act 1 Scene 5 | 00:49 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 9 | Act 1 Scene 5 (cont): Ghost: I am thy father’s spirit | 05:45 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 10 | Act 1 Scene 5 (cont): Hamlet: O all you host of Heaven! | 06:23 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 11 | Act 2 Scene 1 | 03:52 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 12 | Act 2 Scene 1 (cont): Ophelia: My lord, as I was sewing in my closet... | 02:14 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 13 | Act 2 Scene 2 | 04:10 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 14 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Polonius: My liege, and madam, to expostulate... | 04:49 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Polonius: How does my good Lord Hamlet? | 02:23 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 2 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Polonius: You go to seek the Lord Hamlet... | 05:24 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 3 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Guildenstern: There are the players | 01:46 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 4 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: Y’are welcome masters, welcome all | 02:11 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 5 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): 1 Player: Anon he finds him, striking too short... | 04:37 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 6 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! | 03:40 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 7 | Act 3 Scene 1 | 02:52 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 8 | Act 3 Scene 1 (cont): Hamlet: To be, or not to be, that is the question | 05:41 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 9 | Act 3 Scene 1 (cont): Ophelia: Oh what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! | 02:12 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 10 | Act 3 Scene 2 | 04:20 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 11 | Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: They are coming to the play | 02:31 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 12 | Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Player King: Full thirty times hath Phoebus’... | 04:15 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 13 | Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Lucianus: Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit... | 03:06 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 14 | Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: Oh, the recorders. Let me see one | 01:39 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 15 | Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: ‘Tis now the very witching time of night | 00:52 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 16 | Act 3 Scene 3 | 01:47 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 17 | Act 3 Scene 3 (cont): Claudius: Oh my offence is rank, it smells... | 02:59 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 18 | Act 3 Scene 3 (cont): Hamlet: Now might I do it pat... | 01:48 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 19 | Act 3 Scene 4 | 02:45 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 20 | Act 3 Scene 4 (cont): Hamlet: Look here upon this picture... | 02:28 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 21 | Act 3 Scene 4 (cont): Hamlet: Save me and hover o’er me... | 02:18 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 22 | Act 3 Scene 4 (cont): Gertrude: This is the very coinage.... | 04:24 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 23 | Act 4 Scene 1 | 02:16 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 24 | Act 4 Scene 2 | 01:12 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 25 | Act 4 Scene 3 | 03:31 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 26 | Act 4 Scene 4 | 01:46 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 27 | Act 4 Scene 4 (cont): Hamlet: How all occasions do inform... | 02:30 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | Act 4 Scene 5 | 01:21 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 2 | Act 4 Scene 5 (cont): Ophelia: Where is the beauteous majesty... | 05:47 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 3 | Act 4 Scene 5 (cont): Laertes: O thou vile king... | 01:47 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 4 | Act 4 Scene 5 (cont): Laertes: O heat dry up my brains... | 03:47 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 5 | Act 4 Scene 6 | 01:47 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 6 | Act 4 Scene 7 | 07:08 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 7 | Act 4 Scene 7 (cont): Laertes: I bought an unction of a mountebank... | 01:28 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 8 | Act 4 Scene 7 (cont): Gertrude: There is a willow grows aslant... | 02:01 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 9 | Act 5 Scene 1 | 03:25 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 10 | Act 5 Scene 1 (cont): Clown: In youth when I did love... | 05:14 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 11 | Act 5 Scene 1 (cont): Hamlet: Alas poor Yorick! | 01:56 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 12 | Act 5 Scene 1 (cont): Hamlet: But soft, but soft! | 04:23 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 13 | Act 5 Scene 2 | 03:40 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 14 | Act 5 Scene 2 (cont): Osric: Your lordship is right welcome... | 06:02 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 15 | Act 5 Scene 2 (cont): Claudius: Come Hamlet, come and take this hand... | 10:27 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
| | 16 | Act 5 Scene 2 (cont): Fortinbras: Where is this sight? | 03:00 |
Gielgud, John (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 03:25:34