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Michael Parkinson interviews Laurence Olivier.
Comedy drama series set on a housing estate in the Black Country in the mid-1970s. Doug Digby (Conley) is a PE teacher with a sadistic streak. He divides his time between making his pupils miserable. and...
Regional television broadcast. Cleo Laine sings Shakespeare’s words set to music by Johnny Dankworth. Simon Callow reads from the sonnets.
Laurence Olivier talks to Patrick Garland from his home in Sussex, and reads his own choice of poetry and prose from William Shakespeare and other writers.
Regional television broadcast. Royal Shakespeare Company actors Miles Anderson and Tony Armatrading, with company administrator Gordon Scammell, audition teenagers in Darwen Public Library for the few...
Television sitcom. A spin-off from the soap opera CORONATION STREET, featuring Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe) in the same fussy, pedantic role but now assistant manager of a northern chain store, Dobson and...
The Stables Theatre Company stage production of Romeo and Juliet directed for television by Gordon McDougall. Sam Dastor is Romeo and Katherine Barker is Juliet. The production appears to be an assembly of...
Series on the British monarchy written and presented by David Starkey. This episode looks at kings from Richard II to Henry VI that were the subject of Shakespeare’s plays. Starkey examines their reigns...
Television show in which Paul McCartney and John Lennon were joined by a number of artists, each giving their versions of Beatles’ songs. There is a comic tour de force from Peter Sellers, intoning ‘A...
Arts documentary. With five major productions taking place in 2016, the film looks at why King Lear resonates so deeply with contemporary audiences. Don Warrington, Antony Sher, Timothy West, Michael...
Learning on Screen