Theatre Royale: The Happy Hypocrite
Another BookVoices review for talking books you can listen using your MP3 player or iPod. Discounted Talking Books are available at Talking Books Direct. Another BookVoices review for talking books you can listen using your MP3 player or iPod(R). Free Audio Books are available at our Audio Book Store. - Theatre Royal In this episode from the series, Sir John Gielgud stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the famous The Happy Hypocrite classic by Max Beerbohn. First broadcast as an half-hour radio programme in the 1950’s, this performance captures the marvellous theatrical style of post-war radio before the advent of television and offers the experience of vintage radio at its best. The Happy Hypocrite: An episode from the fine series of recordings, made in the early 1950’s, and featuring the leading artists of the day in adaptations of many of the classics. Lord George Hell, a heartless and wicked rake, falls deeply in love with a singer, Jennie Meer, whose voice is as beautiful as her face… 
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