indicates show has been released on audio tape.
2001 BBC Radio 4 LITTLE DORRIT WRITER: Charles Dickens
ROLE: Dickens
Co-starring John Wood, Julian Wadham, Margaret Tyzack
Six weekly episodes broadcast beginning 22 April 2001
1996 Penguin Books ODYSSEY (Unabridged) WRITER: Homer
1997 Audie Award for best solo narration
1996 CREATIONS WRITER: Corigliano
ROLE: Narrator

Recorded 12 July 1996; accompanies recording of I Fiamminghi conducted by Rudolf Werthen

1994 Harper Collins Audio THE DANCING BEAR WRITER: Michael Morpurgo
ROLE: narrator
1994 THE SOLDIER'S TALE ROLE: Narrator
Co-starring: Vanessa Redgrave & Sting.
1994 Pet Shop Boys HEART Music Video
Role: Dracula
1990 BBC Radio RELATED VARIATIONS WRITER: Douglas Slater
Recorded 4 November 1989
Rebroadcast in 1994
1988 WBUR Boston / NPR SPEAKING FOR EVERYMAN Shakespeare's Birthday Celebration
Air Date: 19 April 1988, 8:30pm
Guests: F. Murray Abraham, Sting, Margorie Garber
1985 BBC Radio 4 DEAR AND HONOURED LADY Eextract from act 2 of Noel Coward's Private Lives chosen by Queen Mother with Judi Dench as Amanda and Ian McKellen as Elliott
1982 THE DIARY OF A NOBODY WRITER WRITER: George & Weedon Grossmith
ROLE: Butcher
1980 BBC Radio 3 WORDS, WORDS, WORDS 'A personal Choice of Poetry and Prose' broadcast in five 20 minute programmes, recorded at the BBC Paris Studio before an invited audience
  1970s BBC Radio 4 FAME IS THE SPUR WRITER: Howard Spring
DIRECTOR: Trevor Hill
ROLE: Hamer Radshaw

Recorded by BBC Manchester

1971 BBC Radio HENRY VI WRITER: Shakespeare
ROLE: Dukes of York & Gloucester
 
1971 BBC Radio A SORT OF LEGEND
1970 BBC Radio A PROVINCIAL LIFE WRITER: Anton Chekhov adapted by Peter Gill
 
1970 BBC Radio ROMEO AND JULIET WRITER: Shakespeare
ROLE: Romeo
Co-starring: Anna Calder-Marshall (Juliet) and Robert Eddison (Friar Lawrence)

Recorded 3 March 1970 for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6 April 1970.
 

1969 Prospect Theatre Company EDWARD II WRITER: Christopher Marlowe
ROLE: King Edward
Recording of Prospect Theatre Company performance
1968 BBC Radio RICHARD III WRITER: Shakespeare
ROLE: Lord Hastings

Co-starring: Paul Daneman as Richard III, Judi Dench as Lady Anne

Recorded in studio B10, Broadcasting House, 24 June - 1 July 1967

Broadcast 24 December 1968
 

1967 BBC Radio THE SEAGULL WRITER: Anton Chekhov
ROLE: Konstantin
 
1967 BBC Radio THE FIRST ST. JOAN WRITER: G. Bernard Shaw
ROLE: Dauphin

Four scenes from "St. Joan" introduced by Dame Sybil Thorndike, who acted her original role in this play which took London by storm in 1924

Starring: Sybil Thorndike (Joan), Walter Fitzgerald (Archbishop), Ian McKellen (Dauphin), Clive Morton (Baudricourt), Michael Spice (Dunois), Alan Wheatley (The Inquisitor)
 

1966 Caedmon HENRY V WRITER: Shakespeare
ROLE: Dauphin
 
1966 Caedmon THREE SISTERS ROLE: Tuzenbach
Co-starring: Lynn Redgrave, Paul Schofield, and Jill Bennett
1966 BBC Radio HEDDA GABLER ROLE: Tesman
 
1966 BBC Radio HENRY VIII WRITER: Shakespeare
ROLE: Surrey
 
1966 Caedmon EDWARD II WRITER: Christopher Marlowe
ROLE: Gaveston
 
1966 BBC Radio ELECTRA ROLE: Orestes
 
1965 National Theatre MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING WRITER: Shakespeare
ROLE: Claudio
Co-starring: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Albert Finney, Derek Jacobi, Frank Finlay.
Bristol Hippodrome - 22 March 1965: Theatre Royal, Nottingham - 29 March 1965.
1965 BBC Woman's Hour Serial SONS AND LOVERS WRITER: D. H. Lawrence
 
1960 Marlowe Society/Argo Records ANTONY & CLEOPATRA WRITER: Shakespeare
ROLE: Mardian
1960 Marlowe Society/Argo Records HENRY IV PART 2 WRITER: Shakespeare
ROLE: Davy
1960 Marlowe Society/Argo Records A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM WRITER: Shakespeare
ROLE: Lysander
 
 

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