Radio review – Mercury - “Twelfth Night” (1938) ***

Charming Mercury rendition of the famous comedy, with Welles narrating and offering a delightful prologue (playing Richard Burbage hassling Shakespeare to finish Hamlet and being frustrated he’s writing Twelfth Night instead) and epilogue (about critical reaction to the play through the ages eg Hazlitt, Pepys). The play itself is performed with spirit, although some of the acting is a bit iffy, particularly the girls.