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A Hidden Treasure play, first broadcast in 1971. An innovative stereo version of The Tragedy of Macbeth, starring Joss Ackland, Googie Withers and Robert Hardy.

For many years this innovative production of The Tragedy of Macbeth was thought lost since its original live broadcast on Radio 3 in July 1971. Now it has been painstakingly reassembled by The British Library, The Radio Circle and Essential Radio. It stars Joss Ackland as Macbeth, Googie Withers as Lady Macbeth and Robert Hardy as Macduff, and has a full orchestral score by Stephen Dodgson, conducted by Rae Jenkins. The production was produced and directed by the celebrated and Prix Italia winning Raymond Raikes, and contains an extra scene, as Shakespeare and radio history scholar Dr Andrea Smith explains in her introduction.

With thanks to Dr Andrea Smith of the University of Suffolk, Keith Wickham and Dr Steve Arnold of The Radio Circle, Vedita Ramdoss, Stephen Cleary, Jonathan Summers and Karl Jenkins of the British Library, and Matthew Dodd of 麻豆社 Radio 3.

Macbeth ..... Joss Ackland
Lady Macbeth ..... Googie Withers
Macduff ..... Robert Hardy
Malcolm ..... John Rye
Banquo ..... Clifford Norgate
Fleance ..... Barnaby Williams
Siward, Earl of Northumberland ..... Douglas Blackwell
Lady Macduff ..... Eva Stuart
Angus ..... Gerald Cross
Lennox ..... Kerry Francis
Young Siward/Donalbain ..... Nigel Anthony
King Duncan ..... Richard Hurndall
Ross ..... Sean Arnold
Macduff鈥檚 son ..... Toby Daniels
Seyton ..... Trevor Martin
First murderer ..... Edward Kelsey
Second murderer ..... Ronald Herdman
Third murderer ..... Betty Baskomb
First witch ..... Marjorie Westbury
Second witch ..... Lewis Stringer
Third witch ..... Gladys Spencer
Porter/Captain ..... Henry Stamper
Old man/Doctor of physic ..... John Ruddock

Producer/Director Raymond Raikes

This 2024 remaster of the 1971 original is by Neil Churchill, and produced by James Peak at Essential Radio Ltd for 麻豆社 Radio 3.