BBC R3 - Tom Stoppard's 'Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead'
Music by Marc Wilkinson
Directed by John Tydeman
Broadcast December 24, 1978
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

Hamlet observed offstage by two minor characters who first discuss,
and then become caught up in, the action.

This is the BBC's 1978 production.

Cast
Guildenstern - Edward Petherbridge
Rosencrantz - Edward Hardwicke
The Player - Freddie Jones
Hamlet - Martin Jarvis
Horatio - John Rye
Claudius - Robert Lang
Gertrude - Maxine Audley
Polonius - William Squire
Ophelia - Angela Pleasence
Ambassador - Michael Deacon
Gentleman - Michael Deacon
Fortinbras - Phillip Sully
Alfred - Anthony Daniels
Courtier - Phillip Voss
Sailor - Phillip Sully
1st Tragedian - Andrew Branch
2nd Tragedian - Peter Wickham
3rd Tragedian - Roger Hammond
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Also included documentary about the play.

BBC R3 Documentary - Nightwaves' Landmarks
Presented by Matthew Sweet
Broadcast July 5, 2007
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

BBC Blurb
Forty years after Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead made Tom Stoppard's
name overnight, Matthew Sweet and guests explore its origins and legacy with
those that have been involved in bringing it to the stage, including the
director of the very first production, Derek Goldby.

Staged at the Edinburgh Festival when the playwright was an unknown 29 year
old, the play is famously set simply 'within and around the action of Hamlet'
and has since been widely admired for its verbal wit and dramatic ingenuity,
becoming a contemporary classic of British theatre.
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Contributions from
Lawrence Norfolk
Derek Goldby
Susannah Clapp
Michael Dobson
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