 Their Shakespeare adaptations included a one-hour "Macbeth" starring Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson, and a 90-minute "Hamlet", starring John Gielgud.Recordings of many of these programs survive.During the 1940s, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, famous for playing Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in films, repeated their characterizations on radio on "The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", which featured both original stories and episodes directly adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.