Beatles 'I Am The Walrus' - King Lear Live Radio Feed - Clean Copy 

I remember sitting in my Grade 11 English class in the early 1970's and the teacher was playing a recording of King Lear so we could hear how it sounded before we began preparing for our own performance of the play. As usual, I was trying hard not to fall asleep as I sat there half listening -- when suddenly it began to sound very very familiar. It now had my undivided attention as I kept thinking "why do I know this???" -- and then, as it got to the "serviceable villain" part, I suddenly shouted out "I Am The Walrus" -- most of the class (and the teacher) just laughed at me.. but one guy on the other side of the class slammed his hand on his desk and shouted "YES!!" as he was also trying to figure out why he knew this. I still chuckle at the memory. Thanks for posting this!

My brain keeps hallucinating the I Am The Walrus noises onto this.

0:34 iconic. What an odd delivery. So musical.

There is a certain "music" to it, particularly when he says "o, untimely death". Thanks for sharing

Brilliant eding to the song, it suits incredibly; never ceases to amaze me how it fits so well

OH WOW - I've _always_ been dying to know where those mysterious voices at the end of the song came from!! I could tell it was something from Shakespeare, but I had no clue what it was exactly. Goo-goo Good Job! :D (I am totally posting this on Facebook now...)

It’s so weird to hear this as an isolated track !!!

The fact that they recorded this after Brian had passed, with these lines from King Lear about 'untimely death', makes the whole song a lot more eerier and stranger. Superb.

This is incredible. Until this day, I didn't know exactly what was being said at the end of the song. Nor did I know the source. Thank you for this.

I was watching the reduced 2018 version of King Lear on BBC 4 last night with Anthony Hopkins as Lear and much of this scene and dialogue was cut out.

A great treat to be able to hear this isolated, after all these years.

This was fantastic...Great Upload!!!

Not only is this audibly informative, but the visual portion is well done as well! I always thought this was Paul reading at the end.

My first Metal album is going to be called: Vices of Thy Mistress!

Roger Delgado was in that radio production?! The first Master in Doctor Who?!

Thank you SOOOO much for that.

Interesting that The BBC didn't consider legal action. The actors on this broadcast might have had some justification in claiming royalties if they knew their voices were being used on a rock recording. . Of course if there had been any descendants of Shakespeare alive then he would have got a joint song writing credit!

Thank you, serviceable villain

Now it makes sense.

Thank You!!!

Good work, sir!

How has this recording emerged? Someone looked for the BBC archives? Recorded his radio in September 1967?

Listen to the line "If ever though will strive, bury my body": There is a voice-splice between the word 'strive' and 'bury' (which occurs at 0:27). Are you sure this was live? Thanks.

Is the rest of this play anywhere?

I always thought he said "Did your grandfather...left you"

It's so bizare. You would even dare that The Beatles themselves were playing these parts. They sound a bit like them.

Does the BBC have the actual recording of this production of "King Lear" in the archives?

Smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot....

I know thee well

Can someone explain this to me? I'm having a hard time understanding the context in the video and what the significance is.

Does anyone know who voice that is?

Never knew Shakespare is soo funny !😅

Paul is dead, ha ha!

But like Why