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Four television lectures (transmitted 22-25 April 2003) about Shakespeare’s life and the stage history of his plays. Narrated by A.V. Bartoshevich.
Biopic on the life of Diana Barrymore, daughter of John Barrymore. While drunk on a yacht Barrymore (Flynn) delivers lines from Henry V (from II ii and Act III prologue) and the entire ‘once more unto the...
Twelfth in a series of ‘literary nights’ showcasing Shakespeare’s plays on radio. The programme is produced and directed by A. Corbett-Smith with Cyril Estcourt in the title role supported by members...
Norman O’Neill conducts the Wireless Chorus and the BBC Orchestra in a concert of his own music, written for Shakespeare’s plays. The Orchestra plays the Overture from ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Three...
A personal view of the play presented by Lord Chalfont. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by...
Radio programme for children broadcast as part of the BBC ‘For the Schools’ slot. The ten-minute programme focuses on two speeches from Shakespeare’s Henry V.
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced by R. D. Smith, starring John Neville in the lead.
Two-part production of Shakespeare’s play adapted by Brett Usher, directed by Walter Acosta, starring David Schofield as Henry. No further information available (12/2008).
Radio broadcast. Second in a group of three talks in which H. V. D. Dyson, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, considers Shakespeare’s treatment of death. In this episode Dyson argues via All’s Well That...
An introduction to the play’s theme or atmosphere, designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same actors play several roles, thus showing how the plays were...
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