Sophocles 

Last Edited: 12-Nov-2018
A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Date Title Cast Parameters
BBC R3
08-Mar-2015
Electra
Peter Wright, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Julia Dearden,
Golda Rosheuvel, Thalissa Teixeira, Liz White, Diana Quick, Tyrone Huggins
Music composed by PJ Harvey
Directed for radio by Ian Rickson
Produced for radio by Nadia Molinari

82:42, 77373, S
BBC R4
19-Oct-1980
Electra
by Derek Coltman
Michael Pennington, Margaret Tyzack, Jeremy Kemp, Cheryl Campbell,
Pauline Letts, Philip Voss
Directed By Jane Morgan
88:21, 82835, S
BBC R3
13-Sep-1992
King Oedipus
WB Yeats version
Robert Lindsay, Dorothy Tutin, Peter Vaughan, Paul Daneman, David Ryall,
Cyril Shaps, Karl Johnson, Peter Penry-Jones, Melinda Walker,
Melanie Hudson
Chorus: Jonathan Adams, John Church, Gordon Reid, Keith Drinkel, Peter
Gunn, David Learner, Theresa Streatfeild, Matthew Simms,
Peter Penry-Jones
Adapted and Directed by John Theocharis
88:45, 83206, S
RTE 1
04-Apr-2004
King Oedipus
WB Yeats version

Des Cave, Clive Geraghty, Pat Laffan, Bosco Hogan, John Kavanagh ...
Producer: Aidan Mathews
77:14, 72414, S
BBC WS
28-Jan-1980
Oedipus
by Ted Hughes
Edward Hardwicke, Sian Phillips...
directed by Dickon Reed
60:30, 14182, m
BBC WS
22-Jul-1977
Oedipus Rex
Michael Jayston, David King, Maurice Denham and Mary Wimbush...
Produced and directed by Dickon Reed
59:56, 14050, m
BBC WS
16-Mar-2002
Oedipus Rex
Michael Maloney, Elizabeth Bell...
Directed by David Hitchinson
57:48, 13549, m
BBC R3
26-02-2017
Oedipus the King
Christopher Eccleston, Don Warrington, Adjoa Andoh, John Shrapnel, Fiona
Shaw, Vincent Ebrahim, Darrell D' Silva, Katie Kemp-Riley, Tess Robinson,
Riley Nixon, Eleanor Read, Lucy Godson, Billie Robinson
adapted by Anthony Burgess
Producers Polly Thomas, Eloise Whitmore
104:05, 97572, S
unknown
The Riot Act
(Antigone)
version by Tom Paulin


55:12, 51745, S
RTE
10-Oct-2010
The Burial At Thebes
(Antigone)
version by Seamus Heaney


62:23, 58490, S
RTE

The Cure at Troy
(Philoctetes)

version by Seamus Heaney


58:23, 54733, S
BBC WS
1988
Philoctetes

56:16, 13188, M
BBC R3
03-Feb-1985
to
17-Feb-1985
The Theban Plays
  1. Oedipus the King
  2. Oedipus at Colonus
  3. Antigone
  1. Tim Pigott-Smith, Sian Phillips, Patrick Stewart, Robert Eddison,
    David Collings, David March, Arthur Hewlett, Alan Dudley, Peter
    Acre, Stephen Boxer, James Bryce, Scott Cherry, Alan Dudley,
    David March, Peter Rumney, Colin Starkey, David Timson
  2. Tim Pigott-Smith, Lucy Gutteridge, Nicky Henson, Patrick
    Stewart, Scott Cherry, David Collings, Moir Leslie, David Timson,
    Stephen Boxer, James Bryce, Scott Cherry, Alan Dudley, Peter
    Rumney, David Sinclair, David Timson, David March
  3. Lucy Gutteridge, Patrick Stewart, Anton Lesser, Robbert Eddison,
    Moir Leslie, David Collings, Stephen Boxer, Ellen McIntosh, Peter
    Acre, Stephen Boxer, James Bryce, Scott Cherry, Geoffrey
    Collins, David Marsh, Peter Rumney, David Timson, Alan Dudley
translated by Robert Fagles
directed by David Spenser

BBC R3
10-Dec-2006

The Thebans
  1. Oedipus Tyrannos
  2. Oedipus at Kolonos
  3. Antigone
John Lynch, Fiona Shaw, Michael Feast, Kenneth Cranham, Nadine
Marshall, Vinette Robinson, Jude Akuwudike, William Ash, Adrian
Bower, Russell Dixon
Chorus: Brigit Forsyth, Deborah McAndrew, James Nickerson, Sarah
Parks, Stuart Richman, Declan Wilson
Translated and dramatised by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed and produced by Nadia Molinari
80:36, 75562, S
68:00, 63748, S
80:07, 75109, S
interview w/

Timberlake
Wertenbaker
6:38, 6214, S

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