composed by [music composed by] Malcolm Clarke directed by John Tydeman music by BBC Radiophonic Workshop script by William Shakespeare voice actor [barnardo / an ambassador] Patrick Tull voice actor [claudius] Robert Lang voice actor [cornelius / lucianus / a servant / second gravedigger] Ronald Herdman voice actor [first player (player king) / first gravedigger] Aubrey Woods voice actor [fortinbras, prince of norway] Sean Barrett voice actor [francisco] Nigel Graham voice actor [gertrude, queen of denmark] Maxine Audley voice actor [ghost / a priest] Rolf Lefebvre voice actor [guildenstern] Leslie Heritage voice actor [hamlet, prince of denmark] Ronald Pickup voice actor [horatio, friend to hamlet] Martin Jarvis voice actor [laertes, son to polonius] David Spenser voice actor [marcellus] Michael Kilgarriff voice actor [ophelia, daughter to polonius] Angela Pleasance voice actor [osric] John Rye voice actor [polonius, lord chamberlain] William Squire voice actor [reynaldo / prologue / a gentleman] Gil Sutherland voice actor [rosencrantz] Michael Spice voice actor [voltimand / player queen / a sailor] David Valla Copyright (c) BBC Enterprises Ltd. Phonographic Copyright (p) BBC Enterprises Ltd. Duplicated By Audio Services Ltd. First broadcast BBC Radio 3, 31 October 1971.