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Shakespeare’s Historical Plays In the autumn of 1947, the BBC Third Programme broadcast productions of Shakespeare’s mediaeval history plays. The two parts of Henry IV were given in whole, but as so often the three parts of Henry VI were reduced to a single ‘shortened version’. The poet and Oxford academic, the Rev Maurice Roy Ridley (1890-1969), introduced the series, having published editions of Shakespeare’s plays. Ridley was the model for Dorothy L Sayers’ fictional detective, Lord Peter Wimsey.
72 RICHARD II signed with initials pen ink and bodycolour 4 3⁄4 x 3 inches Illustrated: Radio Times, 3 October 1947, page 8, for broadcast on the Third Programme on Sunday 5 October 1947 at 8.30pm
75 HENRY VI signed with initials pen ink and bodycolour 4 1⁄2 x 3 inches Illustrated: Radio Times, 3 October 1947, page 24 (printed in reverse), for broadcast on the Third Programme on Thursday 9 October 1947 at 8.30pm
76 RICHARD III signed with initials pen ink and bodycolour 4 1⁄2 x 3 inches Illustrated: Radio Times, 3 October 1947, page 28 (printed in reverse), for broadcast on the Third Progamme on Friday 10 October 1947 at 7.40pm
73 HENRY IV signed with initials pen ink and bodycolour 4 1⁄2 x 2 3⁄4 inches Illustrated: Radio Times, 3 October 1947, page 12 (printed in reverse), for broadcast on the Third Programme on Monday 6 October 1947 at 7.45pm
74 HENRY V signed with initials pen ink and bodycolour 4 3⁄4 x 3 inches Illustrated: Radio Times, 3 October 1947, page 20 (printed in reverse), for broadcast on the Third Programme on Wednesday 8 October 1947 at 7.40pm