A selection of over 40 scenes and speeches performed in live Royal Shakespeare Company productions from 1959 to the present day, chosen by Gregory Doran, Artistic Director of the RSC and archived at the British Library.

Running time: 283 minutes

Sound format: 16 bit 44.1khz

Artists

Laurence Olivier (actor), Harry Andrews (actor), Michael Blakemore (actor), Kenneth Gilbert (actor), Peter Woodthorpe (actor), Paul Hardwick (actor), Donald Sinden (actor), Peggy Ashcroft (actress), John Corvin (actor), Paul Scofield (actor), Brian Murray (actor), John Laurie (actor), David Warner (actor), Tony Church (actor), Alton Kumalo (actor), Jeffery Dench (actor), Patrick Stewart (actor), John Wood (actor), Janet Suzman (actress), Joseph Charles (actor), Rosemary McHale (actress), Sidney Livingstone (actor), Jeremy Barlow (flute), Gordon Kempler (harp), Charles Fullbrook (percussion), Tony McVey (percussion, timpani), Peter Washtell (percussion), Robin Weatherall (percussion), Richard Pasco (actor), Sebastian Shaw (actor), Ian Richardson (actor), Clement McCallum (actor), Ian McKellen (actor), Francesca Annis (actress), Marie Kean (actress), Emrys James (actor), Alan MacKenzie Howard (actor), Oliver Ford Davies (actor), Edwin Richfield (actor), Roger Rees (actor), Michael Williams (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Mark Rylance (actor), Antony Sher (actor), Penny Downie (actress), Joseph O'Conor (actor), Alexander Wilson (actor), Alan Rickman (actor), Hilton McRae (actor), Andrew Yeats (actor), Janet Dale (actress), Lindsay Duncan (actress), Christopher Lacey (flute), Victor Slaymark (clarinet), Steve Pierce (clarinet), Peter Whittaker (bassoon), Roderick Teale (trumpet), Brian Newman (horn, instruments), Duncan Hollowood (horn, instruments), David Hissey (trombone), Peter Chapman (double bass), Benjamin Grove (guitar), Tim Higgs (keyboards), Brian Cox (actor), Donald Sumpter (actor), Jeremy Gilley (actor), Robert Stephens (actor), Michael Maloney (actor), Bernard Shaw (timpani), David Oyelowo (actor), Dame Judi Dench (actress), Arthur Kohn (actor), Claudie Blakley (actress), Jill Heartfield (cello), Bruce O'Neil (keyboards), Ian Holm (actor), Paul Robeson (actor), Mary Ure (actress), Hugh Emrys Griffith (actor), Clive Swift (actor), Patience Collier (actress), Barrie Ingham (actor), Elizabeth Spriggs (actress), Nicholas Selby (actor), Ben Kingsley (actor), Frances J. de Lautour (actress), John Kane (actor), Ian William Richardson (actor), John Darrell (actor), William Armstrong (actor), David Suchet (actor), David Waller (actor), Juliet Stevenson (actress), Daniel Massey (actor), John Nolan (actor), Jonathan Pryce (actor), Sinéad Moira Cusack (actress), Roger Allam (actor), Susan Fleetwood (actress), Ciaran Hinds (actor), Paterson Joseph (actor), Simon Russell Beale (actor), Richard Moore (actor), Robert Whitelock (actor), Barry Aird (actor), Paul Jesson (actor), Jane Lapotaire (actress), Ian Hogg (actor), Darrell D'Silva (actor), David Hobbs (actor), Michael Pennington (actor), Richard McCabe (actor), Guy Henry (actor), Trevor Cooper (actor), Alison Fiske (actress), Kananu Kirimi (actress), Ray Fearon (actor), Roger Frost (actor), Tom Beard (actor), Ian Gelder (actor), Jasper Britton (actor), Alexandra Gilbreath (actress), Emma Fielding (actress), Esther Ruth Elliott (actress), Anton Lesser (actor), Nick Court (actor), Harriet Walter (actress), Ken Bones (actor), Rob Carroll (actor), Jonathan Hyde (actor), Ben Meyjes (actor), Julian Harries (actor), Richard Goulding (actor), Ben Addis (actor), Geoffrey Streatfeild (actor), Alexia Healy (actress), Hannah Barrie (actress), David Tennant (actor), Sam Alexander (actor), Tom Davey (actor)