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Not Now I’m Listening [11/12/1977] (1977 Radio)

Series

Not Now I’m Listening

Radio series which the Radio Times describes as ‘an unpredictable selection of comment, humour, prose and poetry, music and performance’. In this episode entertainer Peter Schickele treats Shakespeare as...

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Pimpernel Smith (1941 Film)

Director

Leslie Howard

Feature propaganda film and a wartime sequel to The SCARLET PIMPERNEL (d. Harold Young, 1934) also starring Leslie Howard. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, an English archaeologist...

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Parkinson [12/01/1980] (1980 Television)

Series

Parkinson

Director

John Hughes

Producer

John Fisher

Chat show hosted by Michael Parkinson. Jonathan Miller is the first guest and talks for c17 minutes. He states that he prefers directing plays and operas to performing. He directed A Midsummer Night’s...

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Night Waves [31/03/2010] (2010 Radio)

Series

Night Waves

BBC Radio 3 arts series. Special episode dedicated to the figure of the fool in British culture, examining how the ideas embodied in the fool resonate in a culture still anxious about what its comedians can...

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Romeo & Juliet: The Tragic Lovers (2008 Video)

Educational DVD offering commentary and staged performances of Romeo and Juliet. James Bride introduces factual information about the play by referencing a digitally enhanced version of the Prologue. Gary...

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Othello-Concluded (1955 Television)

Series

Shakespeare on TV

Director

Bill Alcine

Producer

William Whitley

The third and final programme on Othello presented by Dr Frank C. Baxter. Baxter analyses the fourth and fifth acts of the play discussing humour, poetry and the use of song; he also considers the burden of...

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Orson Welles’s Almanac [03/05/1944] (1944 Radio)

Series

Orson Welles’s Almanac

Director

Orson Welles

Radio variety show broadcast only in California, not nationally. This episode includes Welles reading the ‘unto the King’ speech (IV i) from Henry V. Lucille Ball was the guest star but did not...

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Much Ado About Comedy (2016 Radio)

Producer

Hayley Redmond

Radio broadcast. Matt Lucas explores Shakespeare’s comedies and examines whether they have an influence on current humour. Today we interpret comedy from a different perspective than 400 years ago - comedy...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1968 Film)

Director

Peter Hall

Producer

Michael Birkett

Feature film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Eliminating cinematic narrative and theatrical staging the film was harshly treated by the critics.

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