A Song For Edmond Shakespeare
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A Song For Edmond Shakespeare was the second of the three radio plays by Gary Bleasdale
for BBC Radio 4
, on the life of Edmund Shakespeare
, William
's younger brother. It was first broadcast on 7 January 2005 and shortlisted to be nominated for a Sony Radio Award in 2006. The cast of the original production were
Gary Bleasdale
Gary Bleasdale is an actor and playwright, born on Merseyside England in 1962. Gary has appeared in many television programmes since 1978 when his first role was playing the lead in an episode of the final series of Z Cars. He played Kevin Dean in The Black Stuff , and in Boys From the Black Stuff,...
for BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
, on the life of Edmund Shakespeare
Edmund Shakespeare
Edmund Shakespeare was a 16th and 17th century English actor.-Life:He was the son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden and thus the younger brother of the playwright William Shakespeare. He followed William to London to become an actor. While an actor, he had an affair with an unknown woman around...
, William
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
's younger brother. It was first broadcast on 7 January 2005 and shortlisted to be nominated for a Sony Radio Award in 2006. The cast of the original production were
Original cast
- Edmond Shakespeare - Paul RhysPaul RhysPaul Rhys is a British television, film and theatre actor.Rhys was born in Wales and studied at RADA, leaving with the Bancroft Gold Medal in 1987. While there, he obtained his first major screen role, in Absolute Beginners . Since then he has seldom been off the stage and screen...
- Anne - Helen LongworthHelen LongworthHelen Longworth is a British actor. She has appeared in many radio plays including playing Zofia in two series of On Mardle Fen, Susie Dean in The Good Companions and Marina in Pericles...
- Ben - Stuart McLoughlinStuart McLoughlinStuart McLoughlin is a British actor. He is notable for his appearance in the title role in 2008's Clone. His other TV appearances include 2008's Little Dorrit and Waking the Dead , and he has also appeared onstage in A Matter of Life and Death...
- Christopher - Stephen Hogan
- Alice - Cherry Morris
- Crooke - Nigel Barrett
- Thomas - Robert HastieRobert HastieRobert Hastie was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Kanowna in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1901 to 1905. He was Minister for Justice and Mines from 1904 to 1905 and Minister for Justice and Labour in 1905....
- Rosetta - Emily Wachter
- Gatekeeper - Hugh Dickson
External links
- http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article406399.ece
- http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/s/so/song_for_edmond_shakespeare__a.html