Traditional recordings of actors right from the start from the recording era. CD 1: Historic Shakespeare shows by Ainley, John Barrymore, Bourchier, Casson, Forbes-Robertson, John Geilgud (1920s and 1940s). Compact disc 2: A miscellany. Some startling traditional performances in an array of works from Edith Evans, Charles Laughton, Noel Coward, Sarah Bernhardt, Fred Terry, Laurel and Hardy, Edwin Booth, Bransby Williams, Jean Cocteau, Feodor Chaliapin as well as others.