Richard III (1946) - Radio drama starring Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2015
- Richard III by William Shakespeare.
Radio drama starring
Laurence Olivier as Richard
Ralph Richardson as Narrator
Episode of the CBS radio anthology series 'Columbia Workshop'.
The Old Vic Theatre Company in their first American radio appearance.
Broadcast on 2 June 1946.
Great presentation! Ralph Richardson has always been one of my favorite actors; and his narration was a great help to understanding the play. And Olivier? Never better! Thank you!
By far the most rewarding 1 hour, 29 minutes, and 41 seconds I've ever spent on RUclips. Thank you!
Penny Loafer .
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I find it interesting that Olivier inserted part of Richard's soliloquy from "Henry VI, Part 3" (the part that begins with "Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb") not only in this radio play, but also in the movie. I think I might like these lines better than the original soliloquy.
In my opinion the quality of oliviers blank verse speaking in this radio version actually surpasses that of the film version he made later. His control and the clarity he achieves in his opening speech are extraordinary. Far greater i think than in the film version where to speak musically he speeds up and slows down during various phrases. Here his tempo is absolutely solid. A pleasure to listen to.
I'm fascinated by the difference. Perhaps I'm too primitive in preferring the version I can see. Thank you for food for thought.
agree!
Love Olivier but love Ralph Richardson more! I remember him being interviewed when he was in his 70s & he was still riding his motorbike 750cc Norton. Such a character..what a voice!...& not at all 'precious'.
Thank you, sir, for let us listen to this unique voice, the one of Sir Laurence Olivier. RIP Shame, blame and curse upon the 15 "thumbs down". Some kind of traitors to the English culture, to the World culture.
Tudors or Welsh the cowards.
Glad the silly dislikes are no longer shown.
Fantastic voice. Wish there was a complete version with him
Isn't this complete?
I could only imagine listeners back then. Great times, indeed.
Bruh, it was 1946. The country was utterly devastated and traumatized from WW2 which at this point had ended only months ago
@@sirjanska9575 Londoners battled on thru the war, picking their way around bomb sites to get to work. After the war, despite continued food rationing, ppl were elated .
I don't live too far from a direct descendant of Richard III. He works as a specialist furniture maker in North London & made the coffin that Richard III's remains were put & reburied after his skeleton was unearthed from under a car park!
@@citizen1163 Fitting for him to craft the coffin. Funny how these things can go
Great find. You can probably get the audio cleaned up.
Great to find some quality on youtube. Thank you for posting.
What a brilliant production thanks so much for sharing this with the world Roman. Olivier at his best.
One of my most favourite items in the collection.
Glad you appreciate it.
my favorite Shakespere play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can’t choose between this one and Macbeth! They are both amazing 😃😃
Discovered your posting by accident-MANY THANKS! Sir Laurence's voice always commanding, compelling and demanding of your complete attention...I would match his Shakespearean adaptations up against any other past, present and future...That aside, more information about the last Plantagenet king is coming to light -perhaps one day the truth will vindicate him...As some other posters have mentioned Henry VII had every reason to want his young brothers-in-law dead in order to claim the throne for himself...There is no proof the princes were dead BEFORE Richard's fall at Bosworth...Almost forgot the narrator Sir Ralph a great actor in his own right..
thank you for uploading this!!
Epic stuff
A soothing balm when the world lives in fear of the covid.19 virus and our monarchy in disarray too...Long live
those who bring us Shakespeare in times of chaos..so wonderful. Barrere
Isn't it remarkable that his characterisation is so like his later film version.I think he knew his range could take him to an over precision in speech so he used it coupled with a cold school teacherly manner in this.
The makeup!
Bravo!
I actually understood the story so much more than Olivier's film of Richard 111. I have only discovered Shakespeare through my interest in Larry. School we studied The Merchant of Venice I didnt enjoy it @ 15 ☺
+carolejander Yes, I always thought it's much easier to understand a character or a play when it, so to speak, acquires flesh and bones. Especially when the flesh and bones are those of Larry's )
Me as well, Larry made me interested in Shakespeare and I will be forever grateful for this.
That radio version wasn't a patch on Olivier's film version because the sound was too wooly.I've noticed that in other radio plays too, you'd think the directors would throw in a touch of echo effects to simulate the acoustics of castles and halls etc.
ACT I, Scene I 3:56
15 philistines partly watched too
That was fantastic. Thank you. - I'm trying to track down the actress who played Queen Margaret, but can't quite make out who is announced at the play's end for that part. "Nina Barrow" and similar variants "Barlow" etc. bring nothing up in a search engine. If anyone could clarify, I'd really appreciate it. I love her performance here.
Okay, took a little digging but her name is Ena Burrill, as read off an Old Vic program for a performance at New Century Theatre of Henry IV, parts 1 & 2, where she played Mistress Quickly. If only that were available as well!
I keep coming back to hear Ena. Absolutely perfect delivery. Slight edit glitch at 32.31 when splicing tape together notwithstanding.
The curse. "What, were you all snarling before I came, ready to catch each other by the throat?" 32:20 - 38:20
"The dog is dead." 1:07:12 - 1:08:15
its a pity,that the quality,is so bad
I noticed a few single-word differences between this opening soliloquy and the later 1955 film. "Shrink" instead of "shrimp", "Throne" instead of "crown", "send" instead of "set". I think there was one more but it slips the mind...
yes. There are many errors. Chameleon. It was made for kissing Lady (nor maybe!!)
Until I re-watched I didn't realise that he said "shrimp" in the film. Other changes: world affords/earth affords and my misshaped/this misshaped. But my main surprise is that Olivier had put together the same R3/H6-3 mashup soliloquy a decade before his film.
Am I mistaken in thinking the voice of Edward IV is John Gielgud?
Yes.
Wonderful performance, but lies lies lies from the mind of the Tudors and their descendants.
What happened to parts I & II?
I wonder if Anne was played by Edith Sitwell. I would wager it was.
A horse..a horse... where the f..is my horse?
Is this an abbreviated version of the play?
Yes, trimmed down to an hour and a half arrangement for this radio presentation.
was the war over by june 46
Yes it was. in Europe V E day 8th MAY 1945 , the Japanese surrendered on the 15th August 1945 but never signed the official surrender papers until 2th September 1945
The biggest villain in all of Shakespeare's works is the man himself . He is the author of it all . And he doesn't half have an evil insight into the minds of tyrants , as he imagines them , from the " inside" , not of their minds, but from his own mind .
Shakespeare had great insight into all kinds of human minds, women as well as men. He wrote great parts for women characters.
28:07
Shakespeare's "hatchet job" on Richard III inspired by the Tudors. Elizabeth - Shakespeare's patron - was a direct descendant of the usurper Henry Tudor (who was supported by the treacherous Margaret Beaufort.) Richard was not 'crookback' and probably not guilty of the murder of the Princes in the Tower, either; Henry VII had equivalent motive as Edward V's claim to the throne was more legitimate than those of either Richard or Henry's. As they say, history is written by the victor. But for the traitorous Stanleys and the Duke of Northumberland we might have retained the Plantagenet and true line of monarchs.....
Shakespeare also slew with the hatchet Antony, Cleopatra, Brutus, Cassius, Julius Caesar and Coriolanus. Horrible historian he was. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
Ian McKinnon, in 2012 Richard's grave was found. He was indeed 'crookback'. He had scoliosis. DNA confirmed it was his remains. You can find pictures of his skeleton online.
Richard had the boys killed. He was king, they were his nephews in his custody. No one would have touched them without his permission. ...* He never denied they were dead (*Encyclopedia Brittanica)
He did have scoliosis, but no hunchback would have been visible. However, it would likely have caused him to walk with a limp and make one shoulder visibly higher than the other. (Source: Silent Witnesses by Nigel McCreery, page 245)
Shakespeare was a playwright, not a historian,
if you want the history there are plenty of documentaries out there
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What a shame
Shakespeare needed at joke writer. This stuff is all hot air.
Boring, just like his film version. A total, unemotional waste of one of the best speeches ever written.
Clearly no English blood runs in your veins.
Harsh!