The Voice of Flora Robson: Listen with Gilbert

Podcast: Chesterton Radio · Chesterton Radio

Opublikowano: 2026-10-15

Christmas Eve, 1950. A 25-year-old Richard Burton takes the microphone as David Copperfield. Boris Karloff becomes the sinister Uriah Heep. And as the formidable Betsey Trotwood, one of Britain’s great character actresses enters the story: Flora Robson. In this Chesterton Radio deep dive, we follow Robson’s extraordinary voice across more than thirty years of radio drama through three very different performances. 🎙️ David Copperfield — Theatre Guild on the Air (1950)Richard Burton, Boris Karloff and Flora Robson bring Dickens to American network radio on Christmas Eve. 🎙️ The Soft September Air — Charlotte Hastings, BBC Saturday Night TheatreAn ol...