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===Radio adaptations=== * In 1950, Peter Brook directed a BBC Home Service birthday tribute to Shakespeare<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0e6f3b5e83624574935f1b03eeaf522d | title=BBC Genome| date=23 April 1950}}</ref> with John Gielgud as Angelo, Leon Quartermaine as Lucio, Harry Andrews as Vincentio, Barbara Jefford as Isabella, and Robert Hardy as narrator.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av67097 | title=BUFVC, ''Measure for Measure'' 1950}}</ref> * In 1951, AE A Harding arranged and produced a BBC Third Programme version,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/760d6da403cf4ca0aa7fe165b17d1a0f | title=BBC Genome| date=20 June 1951}}</ref> with Stephen Murray as Angelo, Dennis Arundell as Lucio, Laidman Browne as Vincentio, Claire Bloom as Isabella.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av70754| title=BUFVC, ''Measure for Measure'' 1951}}</ref> * In 1955, Raymond Raikes adapted and produced a BBC Third Programme version<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3b1d39eee6384360a58c91a948a57f0c | title=BBC Genome| date=27 March 1955}}</ref> with Michael Hordern as Angelo, Heron Carvic as Lucio, Deryck Guyler as Vincentio, Hermione Hannen as Isabella, and John Gabriel as narrator.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av69190 | title=BUFVC, ''Measure for Measure'' 1955}}</ref> An off-air recording exists. * In 1964, Raymond Raikes adapted and produced a BBC Third Programme version<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0ae68a26d8bc4fc1b6f22b2359ad4436 | title=BBC Genome| date=13 November 1964}}</ref> with William Squire as Angelo, David March as Lucio, Anthony Nicholls as Vincentio, and Barbara Jefford as Isabella.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av71419 | title=BUFVC, ''Measure for Measure'' 1964}}</ref> * In 1976, Jane Morgan produced a BBC Radio 3 version<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/38eab969cbf946f590dc642e5e654552 | title=BBC Genome| date=7 March 1976}}</ref> with Philip Bond as Angelo, Norman Rodway as Lucio, Michael Gough as Vincentio, and Marian Diamond as Isabella.<ref>{{Cite web | title=BUFVC, ''Measure for Measure'' 1976| url=https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av71537}}</ref> * In 1994, Peter Kavanagh adapted and directed a BBC Radio 3 version<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c5ec29f416e14fc688406217a7ec475c | title=BBC Genome| date=19 June 1994}}</ref> with John Shrapnel as Angelo, Simon Russell Beale as Lucio, Ronald Pickup as Vincentio, and Saskia Reeves as Isabella.<ref>{{Cite web | title=BUFVC, ''Measure for Measure'' 1994| url=https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av67295}}</ref> * In 2004, [[BBC Radio 3]]'s ''Drama on 3'' broadcast a production directed by Claire Grove, with [[Chiwetel Ejiofor]] as The Duke, [[Nadine Marshall]] as Isabella, [[Anton Lesser]] as Angelo, [[Adjoa Andoh]] as Mariana, Jude Akuwudike as Claudio, Colin McFarlane as the Provost, and Claire Benedict as Mistress Overdone.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/productions/measure-measure-2004-bbc-bbc-radio-3 |title=''Measure for Measure'' (2004): BBC, BBC Radio 3 | BBA Shakespeare |access-date=25 April 2018 |archive-date=26 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726222720/https://bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/productions/measure-measure-2004-bbc-bbc-radio-3 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * On 29 April 2018, [[BBC Radio 3]]'s ''Drama on 3'' broadcast a new production directed by Gaynor Macfarlane, with Paul Higgins as The Duke, Nicola Ferguson as Isabella, Robert Jack as Angelo, Maureen Beattie as Escalus, Finn den Hertog as Lucio/Froth, Michael Nardone as the Provost, Maggie Service as Mariana, Owen Whitelaw as Claudio/Friar Peter, Sandy Grierson as Pompey, and Georgie Glen as Mistress Overdone/Francisca.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0wrpp | title=BBC Radio 3 β Drama on 3, ''Measure for Measure''}}</ref>
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