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Chat show hosted by Clive James. Kenneth Branagh as a guest speaks of how his love of Shakespeare was formed partly by hearing Peter Sellers intoning The Beatles’s song ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ in the...
Television arts documentary. When Ian McKellen joined the National Theatre in 1984, he was asked by The South Bank Show to keep an audiotape diary of his experiences as an actor over the next twelve months....
Computer animation. Naked Rabbit presents Act II sc ii of Hamlet acted by cats, with Hamlet being an impression of Charlton Heston. The show is introduced from a study by Frasier Tomcat, a spoof on Alistair...
Radio broadcast. First of three interval talks in which various artists talk about their personal appreciation of Shakespeare. In this episode Austrian journalist and Birmingham entrepreneur Andre Drucker...
A version of the play which in the costumes and reproduction of the Globe theatre stage contribute to recreating the impression of 16th-century performance, but using a modern English narrative.
BBC Radio 3 arts series. Paul Allen is joined by Jonathan Miller and Henry Goodman to discuss The Merchant of Venice, arguably the play that has been most changed by history. Since the Holocaust the...
A version of the play which in the costumes and reproduction of the Globe theatre stage contribute to recreating the impression of 16th-century performance. Efrem Zimbalist Jnr is Prospero.
Uses an excerpt from Olivier’s 1944 production of HENRY V to demonstrate the Globe theatre. Opens with a shot of an elaborate model of London in 1600 and shows London bridge, a general impression of the...
Film chronicling in comic sketches the history of eroticism and attempts made over the centuries to disguise the human body. Includes an episode about men acting female roles on the Elizabethan stage with a...
Radio broadcast. Written and arranged in Elizabethan English by Herbert Farjeon, Radio Times announces this programme as being an "impression - a conjecture - a shot in the dark at what listeners might have...