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In this radio interview presented by Barry Carman, 23-year old David Warner (at the time the youngest actor to have played Hamlet on the professional stage) explains how he approached the part and how he...
Radio series in six parts in which Michael Billington talks to actors about key roles in the repertoire. In the last episode Michael Pennington and Kenneth Branagh talk to critic Michael Billington about...
Radio programme. 45-year old actor Edward Fox, having taken on the part for a Young Vic production, tells presenter Brian Matthew how it feels to play a character who should be portrayed by an actor closer...
In this radio programme Derek Jacobi, who played Hamlet in the BBC TV production, gives a personal introduction to the play. He examines the many interpretations of a role that has been regarded as the...
As part of the Radio 3 arts programme broadcast on 12 November 1970, critic Michael Billington speaks to theatre and opera director Jonathan Miller about some of the staging difficulties for a production of...
Five-part radio series in which famous actors talk about the character of Hamlet. In episode five, broadcast on The Third Programme on 16 May 1954, John Gielgud reflects on a 25-year association with the...
In this 5-minute item from a longer programme, presenter Evan Davis hears from theatre critic Michael Billington on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of Hamlet, starring Doctor Who actor David...
Fourth episode in a fifteen-part televised series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies), effectively presenting a chronological history of British...
Low-budget, modern dress, adaptation of Macbeth. Macbeth is conceived as a bland, corporate hatchet man, the three witches as svelte clubbers, and the porter a doorman at a comedy club. The settings include...
A BBC television production with Leonard Rossiter in the title role.