@@mancavecentral13 yeah, I'm also wondering why skip it; It seems like they skipped Hecate's part. They skipped Hecaet's lines in act IV . Scene 1 too.
I recorded this very BBC version of "that play" on my reel-to-reel tape recorder in 1966, microphone up against the Bush radio speaker. That year I did my GCE O- level in English literature. I must have listened to it a dozen times before the exam. Still failed English lit. though😂. Still my favourite Shakespeare play despite that! Thank you so much for letting me "meet again" this famous version once again!
I used to have a cassette tape of this recorded directly from a radio speaker. I listened to it a lot until the tape got mangled and I couldn't find another copy. I never thought to come across it again. Thanks.
you can count the great actors of the great plays on one hand. Scofield is one of those. this is a worthy production; if only the BBC would open it's vaults a little wider. there are frothing oceans here in each and every line. spend an afternoon with MacBeth and you will bleed it for as long as your heart pumps and perhaps longer.
I doubt their vaults are as full as you think. If Terry Gilliam had to buy out Python tapes to save them from overwriting with some bullshit as it was a means to save money at bbc at that time, you can imagine how much of precious stuff is lost
Thanks for this great download The greatest tale ever told.We are such stuff as dreams are made of.Never in a million years will we get another shakespear the greatest wrighter in english fiction.This radio drama production will never be surpassed absolutely beyond any reasonable doubt.
Came to get help reading this play, left being transported to eleventh century Scotland. Thank you so much for posting this! Made reading this play an experience instead of a chore.
UPDATED* Act I Scene 1: 0:54 Scene 2: 2:25 Scene 3: 6:20 Scene 4: 15:15 (Skips the last line of Duncan’s dialogue) Scene 5: 18:36 Scene 6: 24:20 Act II Scene 1: 31:07 Scene 2: 36:00 Scene 3: 41:35 Scene 4: 50:05 Act III Scene 1: 52:34 Scene 2:(1:00:50) Scene 3:(1:06:11) Scene 4: 1:07:45 Scene: 5 & 6 *no Act 3 scene 5 & 6 in this version of the play (supposedly not written by Shakespeare*) Scene 6: 1:25:45 (in between Scene 1 and Scene 2 of Act 4) Act IV Scene 1: 1:16:59 (go to A3S6 at 1:25:45) Scene 2: 1:28:09 Scene 3: 1:33:11 Act V Scene 1: 1:46:42 Scene 2: 1:51:35 Scene 3 1:53:07 Scene 4: 1:57:17 Scene 5: 1:58:45 Scene 6: 2:02:42 Scene 7: 2:03:30 Scene 8: 2:04:50 Scene 9: 2:08:20
Noel Howlett was the headmaster Mr Cromwell in London Weekend's TV series Please Sir, 1968,and Stephen Thorne was Inspector Lestrade in the Clive Merrison Sherlock Holmes radio series on BBC Radio.
Act V Scene 1: 1:46:42 Scene 2: 1:51:35 Scene 3 1:53:07 Scene 4: 1:57:17 Scene 5: 1:58:45 Scene 6: 2:02:42 Scene 7: 2:03:30 Scene 8: 2:04:50 Scene 9: 2:08:20
The way Scofield delivers this: "the multitudinous seas in-c a r n e-dine." Remarkable -- brings out the wonderful but menacing bi-lingual pun. (carne = meat/flesh in Italian)
Such beautiful English speech! I like this pronunciation, it sounds aristocratically! Why nobody speaks like this nowadays??? I'm English learner. Nowadays we can hear North American accent everywhere, or RP, but not this like in the video...
Alec McCowen plays Macduff and Peggy Ashcroft Lady Macbeth. Not surprisingly, a superb rendering. The BBC has many fine things in their archives, of which more should be released.
My freshman English teacher said the only way to experience Shakespeare is through performance. I've read Macbeth probably three times between high school and college and this along with the text is my favorite way to go through it
With all due respect, your freshman English teacher is just plain wrong. Performance is not the only way to experience Shakespeare. Reading the texts of his plays and enacting them on the stage of your mind is also a fantastic way to experience Shakespeare. Seeing the plays performed is of course very important and wonderful but sometimes the torrents of words come at you in such a fast and furious way that the nuances in the dialogue can easily be missed.
@@ter521fad agreed! What makes it great is the depth you get when reading but performance is great for getting those that don't care about the intricacies (most high school freshman) at least get exposure and find it easier to digest and may pursue further readings because the first lesson wasn't about rhyme scheme and meter in old English
@@ter521fadShakespearean performances today are generally bad - laden with concepts imposed on them by directors and performed by actors who can’t project vocally and lack identification with, or understand of, the text. The ‘theatre of the mind’ is now the only place to experience Shakespeare.
@@donharmuth776 In my opinion, teaching high school students the nuances and intricacies of Shakespeare is a noble effort, but ultimately a waste of time. The vast majority of high school students, when they’re not having their minds turned to garbage by their own parents, are being molded and manipulated by the world at large into being soulless and mindless slaves to conformity. The nuances of intricacies of Shakespeare are completely lost on high school students. Again, that’s just my opinion. Speaking for myself, I had zero appreciation for Shakespeare during my teenage years. My mind was elsewhere.
@@67Parsifal I totally agree. If there are no more movies made of Shakespeare’s works, I personally wouldn’t have a problem with that. So many of Shakespeare’s works have already been filmed. The stage is a different story. Shakespeare’s plays should always be performed on stage….in some form….somewhere. Even if they’re performed badly, by actors and directors who don’t do a great job, they should still be performed somewhere. The words are kept alive that way. That’s just my take on it.
One of the greatest dramas written by the greatest writers of all times: William Shakespeare. Great actors and actresses, marvellous!!! Greetings from Germany!!!
ACT IV SCENE I. A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron. Thunder. Enter the three Witches First Witch Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. Second Witch Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. Third Witch Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time. First Witch Round about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i' the charmed pot. ALL Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Second Witch Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. ALL Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Third Witch Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches' mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and slips of yew Silver'd in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, For the ingredients of our cauldron. ALL Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Second Witch Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good. Enter HECATE to the other three Witches HECATE O well done! I commend your pains; And every one shall share i' the gains; And now about the cauldron sing, Live elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in. Music and a song: 'Black spirits,' & c HECATE retires Second Witch By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!
Brilliant....Pity they didn't do a bit more cross - gender casting though . Oh, no, sorry they didn't do bloody stupid things like that then, did they ? They just did it properly and spoke it properly - not a ra- ra skirt, or a balloon in sight, or a glottal stop to be heard. Well done 1966 - a lot, lot better than the crap they serve up now.
Chaz Brennan It’s unavoidable. I listened to some of Kenneth Branagh’s recordings recently with his Renaissance Theatre Company. The synths made me cringe: an embarrassing hangover from the late 1980s.
Act I
-Scene 1(0:00)
-Scene 2 (2:30)
-Scene 3 (6:29)
- Scene 4 (15:07)
Act II
-Scene 1 (31:11)
-Scene 2 (36:05)
-Scene 3 (41:31)
-Scene 4 (50:05)
Act III
- Scene 1 (52:33)
- Scene 2 (1:00:50)
- Scene 3 (1:06:11)
- Scene 4 (1:07:50)
- Scenes 5-6 (skips these scenes)
Act IV
-Scene 1: 1:16:57
-Scene 2: 1:28:10
-Scene 3: 1:33:11
Act V
-Scene 1: 1:46:42
-Scene 2: 1:51:35
-Scene 3 1:53:07
-Scene 4: 1:57:17
-Scene 5: 1:58:45
-Scene 6: 2:02:42
-Scene 7: 2:03:30
-Scene 8: 2:04:50
-Scene 9: 2:08:20
The man the myth the legend
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!
Thank you
Why skip act III scenes 5-6?
@@mancavecentral13 yeah, I'm also wondering why skip it; It seems like they skipped Hecate's part. They skipped Hecaet's lines in act IV . Scene 1 too.
BEST AUDIO FOR MACBETH COMPARED TO ANYTHING ELSE THAT IS ON TH-cam!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then I shall search no further 😄👍🏼
Meh
I recorded this very BBC version of "that play" on my reel-to-reel tape recorder in 1966, microphone up against the Bush radio speaker. That year I did my GCE O- level in English literature. I must have listened to it a dozen times before the exam. Still failed English lit. though😂. Still my favourite Shakespeare play despite that! Thank you so much for letting me "meet again" this famous version once again!
I used to have a cassette tape of this recorded directly from a radio speaker. I listened to it a lot until the tape got mangled and I couldn't find another copy. I never thought to come across it again. Thanks.
Stick a Number 2 pencil in the cog and twirl.
What a nice post. Thank you!
I was blessed to see Paul Scofield live on stage as Salieri in Amadeus in London in the 80s. An unforgettable experience.
So lucky!
Act 1 Scene 1-3 (0:00)
Act 1 Scene 4 (15:07)
Act 3 Scene 1 (52:33)
Act 5 Scene 5 (1:58:25)
Act 5 Scene 1: 1:46:41
Thank you sooo much
Mr. Bené ~My savioore
Mr. Bené thanks
The greatest actor of his generation and one of the five greatest British actors of the twentieth century.
YES ! ! !
Charlie drake being one on your list
you can count the great actors of the great plays on one hand. Scofield is one of those. this is a worthy production; if only the BBC would open it's vaults a little wider. there are frothing oceans here in each and every line. spend an afternoon with MacBeth and you will bleed it for as long as your heart pumps and perhaps longer.
its vaults. Agree.
Yes sir!
I doubt their vaults are as full as you think. If Terry Gilliam had to buy out Python tapes to save them from overwriting with some bullshit as it was a means to save money at bbc at that time, you can imagine how much of precious stuff is lost
YES ! !
I cant write as nicely as you, but Macbeth, yrs ago opened this desire for me. Greatest story ever told. Ever word you said Sir, is right as rain
"look like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath." Love that
This is like candy for the ears.
Obrigado irmao!
They take the reading to another level. I love this!
Thanks for this great download The greatest tale ever told.We are such stuff as dreams are made of.Never in a million years will we get another shakespear the greatest wrighter in english fiction.This radio drama production will never be surpassed absolutely beyond any reasonable doubt.
YES ! ! !
YES ! ! !
I so agree!!! I'd not heard it before...
I listen to this nearly every night. Thanks you
Wheel of Ixion I can't tell whether that's because of an appreciation for Shakespeare or a thirst for blood and I honestly don't wanna know
bit sad
you good?
@@alo2838 LMAOOOW WHO WOULD WANNA LOSTEN TO THIS EVERY NIGHT
LMFAO WHY💔💔💔
GOD I CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH ❤️❤️❤️
10/10 ACTING!
this IS just wonderful !
I'm a Macbeth junkie. Add this one to my all-time favorite versions. I will be playing it to death!
Came to get help reading this play, left being transported to eleventh century Scotland. Thank you so much for posting this! Made reading this play an experience instead of a chore.
thank you so much for All for their excellent dramatic dialogue
First class! I especially enjoyed the clarity and dramatic certitude of the performances.
UPDATED*
Act I
Scene 1: 0:54
Scene 2: 2:25
Scene 3: 6:20
Scene 4: 15:15
(Skips the last line of Duncan’s dialogue)
Scene 5: 18:36
Scene 6: 24:20
Act II
Scene 1: 31:07
Scene 2: 36:00
Scene 3: 41:35
Scene 4: 50:05
Act III
Scene 1: 52:34
Scene 2:(1:00:50)
Scene 3:(1:06:11)
Scene 4: 1:07:45
Scene: 5 & 6 *no Act 3 scene 5 & 6 in this version of the play (supposedly not written by Shakespeare*)
Scene 6: 1:25:45 (in between Scene 1 and Scene 2 of Act 4)
Act IV
Scene 1: 1:16:59 (go to A3S6 at 1:25:45)
Scene 2: 1:28:09
Scene 3: 1:33:11
Act V
Scene 1: 1:46:42
Scene 2: 1:51:35
Scene 3 1:53:07
Scene 4: 1:57:17
Scene 5: 1:58:45
Scene 6: 2:02:42
Scene 7: 2:03:30
Scene 8: 2:04:50
Scene 9: 2:08:20
Lady Macbeth was magical, brava!
Paul Scofield surpasses all others!
Act I
-Scene 1 (0:00)
-Scene 2 (2:30)
-Scene 3 (6:29)
-Scene 4 (15:07)
-Scene 5 (18:34)
-Scene 6 (24:20)
-Scene 7 (26:25)
Act II
-Scene 1 (31:10)
-Scene 2 (36:04)
-Scene 3 (41:29)
-Scene 4 (50:05)
Act III
-Scene 1 (52:32)
-Scene 2 (1:00:31)
-Scene 3 (1:04:50)
-Scene 4 (1:07:49)
-Scene 5 is skipped unfortunately.
-Scene 6 (1:25:44) [this comes after Act IV Scene 1 in the recording.]
Act IV
-Scene 1 (1:16:55)
-Scene 2 (1:28:13)
-Scene 3 (1:33:25)
Act V
-Scene 1 (1:46:47)
-Scene 2 (1:51:36)
-Scene 3 (1:53:22)
-Scene 4 (1:57:31)
-Scene 5 (1:58:45)
Act VI
-Scene 1 (2:02:55)
I'll continue to label everything as I work through the play.
"-Scene 5 is skipped unfortunately."
*fortunately
Nothing equals
Paul Scofield.
Scofield was a once-in-a-generation talent. Stole every scene he was ever in.
Superb! Much indebted for the upload!
Ohhhhhhhh I can't tell you what a treat this is for me.
Noel Howlett was the headmaster Mr Cromwell in London Weekend's TV series Please Sir, 1968,and Stephen Thorne was Inspector Lestrade in the Clive Merrison Sherlock Holmes radio series on BBC Radio.
Thank you so much ! This is so delightful !
Act II Scene i (31:11)
Act II Scene ii (36:05)
Act II Scene iv (50:05)
Act III Scene i (52:40)
Act III Scene ii (1:00:50)
Act III Scene iii (1:06:11)
Oh man this is great! Great example for my super shy students who never want to read with gusto.
TURN HELLHOUND TURN!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you !!!!.... and Happy New Year...
Obrigada, obrigada, obrigada !!!!
This is great. Thanks
Act V
Scene 1: 1:46:42
Scene 2: 1:51:35
Scene 3 1:53:07
Scene 4: 1:57:17
Scene 5: 1:58:45
Scene 6: 2:02:42
Scene 7: 2:03:30
Scene 8: 2:04:50
Scene 9: 2:08:20
Thanks from America!
Thank you for sharing. Larry, Taiwan
The way Scofield delivers this: "the multitudinous seas in-c a r n e-dine." Remarkable -- brings out the wonderful but menacing bi-lingual pun. (carne = meat/flesh in Italian)
Act IV
Scene 1: 1:16:59
Scene 2: 1:25:45
Scene 3: 1:33:11
Did anyone else read/listen to this, when they were in high school?
Thats what im doin
@@noxious9284 same, i actually really like it and i want to get into medieval stuff now
Such beautiful English speech! I like this pronunciation, it sounds aristocratically! Why nobody speaks like this nowadays??? I'm English learner. Nowadays we can hear North American accent everywhere, or RP, but not this like in the video...
Alec McCowen plays Macduff and Peggy Ashcroft Lady Macbeth. Not surprisingly, a superb rendering. The BBC has many fine things in their archives, of which more should be released.
Mark Cogley oh yes definitely
Indeed, Peggy Ashcroft is outstanding in this.
Yeah but we is all woke now, innit.
I wish I'd found this sooner!! I went with the first amateur result but this was so good!!
Well, you're here now, and that's good! So, enjoy.
paul scofield is my inspiration \
fav quote: "i am the mcbeth"
My freshman English teacher said the only way to experience Shakespeare is through performance. I've read Macbeth probably three times between high school and college and this along with the text is my favorite way to go through it
With all due respect, your freshman English teacher is just plain wrong. Performance is not the only way to experience Shakespeare. Reading the texts of his plays and enacting them on the stage of your mind is also a fantastic way to experience Shakespeare. Seeing the plays performed is of course very important and wonderful but sometimes the torrents of words come at you in such a fast and furious way that the nuances in the dialogue can easily be missed.
@@ter521fad agreed! What makes it great is the depth you get when reading but performance is great for getting those that don't care about the intricacies (most high school freshman) at least get exposure and find it easier to digest and may pursue further readings because the first lesson wasn't about rhyme scheme and meter in old English
@@ter521fadShakespearean performances today are generally bad - laden with concepts imposed on them by directors and performed by actors who can’t project vocally and lack identification with, or understand of, the text. The ‘theatre of the mind’ is now the only place to experience Shakespeare.
@@donharmuth776 In my opinion, teaching high school students the nuances and intricacies of Shakespeare is a noble effort, but ultimately a waste of time. The vast majority of high school students, when they’re not having their minds turned to garbage by their own parents, are being molded and manipulated by the world at large into being soulless and mindless slaves to conformity. The nuances of intricacies of Shakespeare are completely lost on high school students. Again, that’s just my opinion. Speaking for myself, I had zero appreciation for Shakespeare during my teenage years. My mind was elsewhere.
@@67Parsifal I totally agree. If there are no more movies made of Shakespeare’s works, I personally wouldn’t have a problem with that. So many of Shakespeare’s works have already been filmed. The stage is a different story. Shakespeare’s plays should always be performed on stage….in some form….somewhere. Even if they’re performed badly, by actors and directors who don’t do a great job, they should still be performed somewhere. The words are kept alive that way. That’s just my take on it.
thank thank
Great version. Thanks for the upload.
love it
Anon, zounds!
I find these players worthy of deep praise;
and likewise for each author's genius page.
Right, time to analyse!
Really good.
One of the greatest dramas written by the greatest writers of all times: William Shakespeare. Great actors and actresses, marvellous!!! Greetings from Germany!!!
This is amazing. 100x better than damn chapter vox
Peggy Ashcroft is a bewitching Lady Macbeth!
I think you spelt pegging wrong, Just thought I should let you know. Kindest regards Noah James Bendix batty
wozzaa lady macbeth
Shakespeare performed beautifully, it is powerful stuff.
Wow wow wow!
really good book, love hearing this
Who asked (I am the better Noah)
@@katanaman8796 thanks
no problem Noah Hildebrand (I am still the better Noah)
55:14 Is Act 3 Scene 1, Macbeth's Soliloquy
First line starts at 01:21
Paul Scofield from "A Man For All Seasons."
Shut it nerd 🤓
Paul Scofield from Quiz Show!
@@facilitiesmaintenance ahh!
anyone here from school?
Yeah online school :/
Nope just a HUGE Macbeth fan (also I am homosexual) kindest regards Oliver Batty III
1:20 Act 1 scene 1
I thought this was the best version available.
Its the best i could find on TH-cam
Nice
Can somone share with me what they think are the best and fullest (unabridged) plays of Macbeth and Othello online?
For Othello, watch the National Theatre Olivier production from 1965. Its on the Shakespeare network channel here.
Just 3 mins ago. I see. I'm glad you took notice. I appreciate it.
ACT IV
SCENE I. A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.
Thunder. Enter the three Witches
First Witch
Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
Second Witch
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.
Third Witch
Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.
First Witch
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Third Witch
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.
ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
Enter HECATE to the other three Witches
HECATE
O well done! I commend your pains;
And every one shall share i' the gains;
And now about the cauldron sing,
Live elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in.
Music and a song: 'Black spirits,' & c
HECATE retires
Second Witch
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!
Lady Macbeth - Peggy Ashcroft is missing from the cast list
You're totally right. Just edited it. Thanx!
There's no Act 3 scene 5 & 6... it jumped right to act four
Ivy Cao act 3 scene six was done after act 4 scene 1. Between it and the second scene.
19:35
33:08
1:59:55
I don't have a copy of the text where I am and wish the video had them.
Bookmark 44:32
2:25 Act 1 scene 2
is this the full play?
I think so.
8:29 i thought it was hank hill for a sec
33:08 Is This A Dagger...?
Brilliant....Pity they didn't do a bit more cross - gender casting though . Oh, no, sorry they didn't do bloody stupid things like that then, did they ? They just did it properly and spoke it properly - not a ra- ra skirt, or a balloon in sight, or a glottal stop to be heard.
Well done 1966 - a lot, lot better than the crap they serve up now.
I could do without the dated musical interludes and fanfares but they are very much of the time.
Chaz Brennan It’s unavoidable. I listened to some of Kenneth Branagh’s recordings recently with his Renaissance Theatre Company. The synths made me cringe: an embarrassing hangover from the late 1980s.
Where is Act 4
2:06:08
27:27
Act 5, scene 1, 3 and 5 = Dunsinane?
What the Hell?
Act3 Scene1 /52:36
31:09 act 2
Act2 Scene1 /31:09
Disappointed we cannot see it 😕😔
Glass half full: let's be happy we can at least hear it.
@@bernardoschmidt Ofc you are right. But I am not wrong. 🙆
@@mckavitt13 Indeed you're not.
@@bernardoschmidt glass half empty with my urine
41:32
Literature telling with voice art...pre
3:19
1:26:00
Does a bat have wool ? . As in " wool of bat " ?
55:10
Sir paul is a little over dame peggy saves the play😊
24:24
01:22
1 hr Act 3 ii
31:12
it's actually pretty good. I never like romeo and Juliet, but macbeth is pretty nice
Hello miss Jordan
56:43
Act 1 Scene 7: th-cam.com/video/ljZrf_0_CcQ/w-d-xo.html
I like the introductory comment: 'Scotland. The eleventh century'.
This production seems a little overwrought. The music certainly is.
Gotta say I much prefer blood brothers
This has to be a joke lmao
Shakespeare is god speaking