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British B-feature. Julius Caesar enacted in a big business setting. Julian Caesar, chairman of Empire Petroleum, trys to effect a merger, but Cassius, a jealous director plots to overthrow him. A clause in...
Radio programme. Three excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays are broadcast under the direction of Lillian Edwards. Transmission took place from 8pm onwards.
Rural documentary series. In this episode Graham Castle, secretary of the Gloucestershire Rural Community Council, presents the Uley Village Players, an amateur Shakespeare company from the county. He...
US comedy sketch show. In one sketch Hamlet becomes a private eye, Private Orb Ham Spade working on the killing of his father assisted by his secretary, Ophelia. Jensen (op cit) notes that it parodies the...
Radio programme presented by Farquharson Small on the history of the Old Vic Theatre, its two female managers, Emma Cons (acting manager 1898-1912) and Lilian Baylis (manager 1912-37), and producer-director...
Radio play based on the short story ‘Excursion in Reality’ by Evelyn Waugh (1932), adapted for broadcasting by Olga Klaenforth. Waugh’s satire on the film industry features the visionary studio...
Radio programme in which Winston Churchill’s nephew, Giles Romilly, talks about some of the impressions left by reading Shakespeare’s plays during his solitary confinement as a POW at Tittmoning castle,...
Tape-slide. Shows how England under Elizabeth I shared in the Renaissance and how it affected Shakespeare, how Shakespeare enriched the concept of the tragic flaw to please his audience, the tragic flaws...
Film director and gay rights activist von Praunheim was given 40 000 Deutsche Mark by the West German public broadcasting station WDR to produce a television opera. Von Praunheim’s operatic take on Macbeth...
Radio programme in which presenter J. Isaacs considers what solid addition to our knowledge has been made by research in the various fields of Shakespearean scholarship.
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