1940/50s
In Parenthesis
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Various
Hamlet
A selection of Edward Thomas’ poetry.
The Last Days of Dolwyn
Prose and Verse for schools
Prose and Verse for schools
Senior English 1 for schools
New Judgement: Thomas Love Peacock
Nightmare Abbey (part 1 and 2)
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Woman’s Hour
Burton reads Westminster Bridge, by William Wordsworth.
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- BBC WAC Tx 12.02.49
Film Time
Film of the week is The Last Days of Dolwyn.
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- BBC WAC Tx 15.05.79
David Davies
Burton reads a radio biography of David Davies – the founder of the Llandlham family, and grandfather of the first Lord Davies.
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- BBC WAC Tx 08.12.49
Various
Hippolytus
The Lady’s Not for Burning
Sea Flood
Book of Verse (x4)
Junior English for schools
Religious Interlude for schools
Senior English I for schools
Junior English for schools
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
Woman’s Hour
Burton reads prose and verse.
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- BBC WAC Tx 27.02.50
Theater Guild on the Air
Burton starred as David Copperfield in The Theatre Guild on the Airs radio adaptation of Dicken’s novel. Karloff played Uriah Heep.
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Various
Birth of a Giant
Night Birds
Taffy was a Welshman
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
Free Ticket
Burton reads prose and verse.
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- BBC WAC Tx 11.09.51
Various
Religious Interlude for schools
Senior Schools II for schools
Prose and Verse for schools
Religion and philosophy for schools
Adventures in English – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for schools
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
Various
Elizabethan theatre – This Killing Spectacle
The Stars in their Choices – Night Must Fall
The Frankie Howerd show Good for the Boy
Under-20 Parade – I want to Act
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
Weekend Review
Laurence Stapley interviews Burton.
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- BBC WAC Tx 12.02.49
Film Time
Burton discusses ‘scenes that made them famous’.
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
Woman’s Hour
Burton is guest of the week.
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
Third Programme – Under Milk Wood
A play for voices by Dylan Thomas.
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
Plain English
John Ellison interviews Burton about events in his career as an actor.
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
In Town Tonight
Burton, the famous film star, returns to England from America.
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
The Best of Films
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- BBC WAC Tx 03.01.54
The Old Vic Comes to the North
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- BBC WAC Tx 03.06.54
Third Programme – In Parenthesis
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In Town Tonight
Burton quotes part of Hamlet.
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
Showpiece
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- BBC WAC 08.12.55
Various
Extracts from Henry V
The Dark Tower
Interview at the Old Vic
Interview for Radio Magazine
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
Woman’s Hour
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- BBC WAC Tx 15.04.58
Today
Interview with Burton.
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- BBC WAC Tx 26.08.58
Roundabout
Spotlight on a star.
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- BBC WAC Tx 17.12.58
Profile
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
Memories of Christmas
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- BBC WAC Tx 25.12.59
1960s
Woman’s Hour
Well-known voices, including Burton, reading well-known verses.
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- BBC WAC Tx 12.01.60
Now and Then
Burton plays the title role.
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- BBC WAC Tx 25.08.60
In Town Tonight
Burton, as an international film star, is interviewed.
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 ART file 1
An Actor’s Profile
Burton presents people and events that have influenced and helped him to become a successful actor.
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- BBC WAC Tx 10.03.61
Woman’s Hour
The programme includes a repeat of the original Under Milk Wood recording, in particular Night.
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- BBC WAC Tx 03.07.61
Woman’s Hour
In a programme of voices and verses, Burton reads Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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- BBC WAC Tx 17.11.61
London Lights
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- BBC WAC Rcont1 file 1
Reading on Record
Burton reads, Do not go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas
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- BBC WAC Tx 30.05.62
Reading on Record
Burton reads Weathers by Thomas Hardy.
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- BBC WAC Tx 11.11.62
Playground in Tiger Bay
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- BBC WAC Rcont12 ART file 2
Under Milk Wood
A new production in celebration of the European Broadcasting Union.
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- BBC WAC Rcont ART file 2
On Films
Burton is interviewed about Cleopatra.
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- BBC WAC Rcont ART file 2
Movie-Go-Round
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- BBC WAC Tx 18.12.63
The Public Bar
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- BBC WAC Tx 26.01.64
Today
Malcolm Davies interviews Burton on Hamlet.
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- BBC WAC Tx 10.04.64
Movietime
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- BBC WAC Tx 01.05.64
A Christmas Story
Written and narrated by Burton, and broadcast on Christmas Day.
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- BBC WAC ref. Rcont12 ART file 2
Movie-Go-Round
Radie Harris interviews Burton about his film, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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- BBC WAC ref. Rcont12 ART file 2
There is a Play Tonight
Burton reads a sequence from Henry V for broadcasting on the eve of St. George’s Day.
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- BBC WAC Tx 30.03.65
Speaking of Poetry
Burton reads Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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- BBC WAC Tx 06.08.65
Speaking of Poetry – PC Cards
Burton reads The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with Robert Hardy and John Neville.
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- BBC WAC Tx 11.08.65
Title
Description
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Today
Burton talks about Doctor Faustus.
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- BBC WAC Tx 04.02.66
South East
Tim Matthews interviews Burton at Oxford, about Doctor Faustus.
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- BBC WAC Tx 14.02.66
The Lively Arts
Patrick Smith interviews Burton in Rome about the filming of Doctor Faustus.
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- BBC WAC Tx 20.02.66
Weeks Good Cause
Burton appeals on behalf of the Haemophilia Society.
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- BBC WAC Tx 24.07.66
The Immortals
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- BBC WAC Tx 20.02.67
Visitors to America
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- BBC WAC Tx 12.09.67
The World this Weekend
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- BBC WAC Tx 18.10.67
Read on From Here
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- BBC WAC Tx 15.11.67
Home This Afternoon
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- BBC WAC Tx 29.11.67
Read on From Here
Burton reads Reminiscences of a Dancing Man.
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- BBC WAC Tx 13.12.67
Read on From Here
Burton reads Poem in October by Dylan Thomas.
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- BBC WAC Tx 03.01.68
South East
Bob Ross interviews Burton.
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- BBC WAC Tx 04.02.69
Profile
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- BBC WAC Tx 20.03.69
Today
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- BBC WAC Tx 17.04.69
South East
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- BBC WAC Tx 16.06.69
Late night Extra
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- BBC WAC Tx 30.06.69
Today
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- BBC WAC Tx 16.07.69
Sound Screen ‘69
Description.
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- BBC WAC Tx 19.10.69
1970s
Today
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- BBC WAC Tx 11.09.70
PM
David Allen interviews Burton on location in Fishguard, Wales, during the filming of Under Milk Wood.
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- BBC WAC Tx 02.02.71
PM
Charles Thompson interviews Burton on handing over £45,000 cheque to the United Nations Children Fund.
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- BBC WAC Tx 07.07.72
Late Night Extra
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- BBC WAC Tx 09.08.72
The World This Weekend
In a feature on the Edinburgh festival, Burton talks about his film, The Assassination of Trotsky.
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- BBC WAC Tx 20.08.72
Film Time
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- BBC WAC Tx 23.09.72
Fifty Broadcasting Years
Burton reads Under Milk Wood, taken from an ARGO commercial recording.
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- BBC WAC Tx 17.10.72
Thanks for the Memory
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- BBC WAC Tx 23.03.73
The Life and Times of Noël Coward
Burton takes part in a programme written and narrated by Sheridan Morley. Lord Olivier, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir John Gielgud, John Mills and David Niven also star in the tribute.
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- BBC WAC Tx 29.06.75
- BBC WAC Tx 10.08.75
Vivat Rex
Burton as the story teller in a radio series – 26 episodes – chronicling the English Crown through 200 years of its history by Elizabethan playwrights, including Shakespeare, Marlow and their contemporaries.
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- BBC WAC Tx 00
Richard Burton
Burton reads poetry by, amongst others, John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas and Sir John Betjeman.
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- BBC WAC Tx 13.11.79
1980s
Hugh Griffith Remembered
Burton pays tribute to Hugh Griffith, the distinguished Welsh actor who died recently.
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- BBC WAC Tx 20.06.80
Kaleidoscope
With Camelot by Lerner and Loewe revived at the New York State Theatre, Burton gives an interview on the Stateside production.
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- BBC WAC Tx 09.07.80
Spot on 4
Burton gets to talk about his love of rugby union.
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- BBC WAC Tx 01.11.80
Today
Dylan Thomas is given a plaque in Westminter Abbey and Burton reads from Under Milk Wood.
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- BBC WAC Tx 18.03.81
The Royal Wedding
Burton joins commentators Terry Wogan, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, Sue MacGregor and Brian Johnston to discuss the day’s events.
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- BBC WAC Tx 29.07.81
In Parenthesis
Burton and the voice of Dylan Thomas feature in this programme taken from the 1948 production.
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- BBC WAC Tx 30.08.81
Profile
John Morgan interviews Burton on his life and career, including his recent meeting with his ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor.
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- BBC WAC Tx 12.03.82
Today
A report on Burton and Elizabeth Taylor who are due to appear on Broadway in Private Lives.
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- BBC WAC Tx 24.09.82
World-This-Weekend
Burton discusses Dr. A L Rowe’s Contemporary Shakespeare.
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- BBC WAC Tx 29.04.84
Under Milk Wood
The BBC repeats the 1963 production of the play for voices by Dylan Thomas as a tribute to Burton who died on 5 August 1984.
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- BBC WAC Tx 03.09.84