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Cartoon. Daffy Duck hosts a television show called ‘The Mysterious Phenomena of the Unexplained’. Daffy and Porky plot to pocket the investment money by doing a bad play (cf ‘The Producers’). They...
A documentary on an archaeological investigation of Shakespeare’s tomb presented by historian Dr Helen Castor. For decades, all requests to perform archaeology at the grave have been turned down by Holy...
BBC television comedy sletch show. This episode Includes a c3 minute sketch in which Harry Secombe plays the gravedigger to Julian Orchard’s Hamlet. While Hamlet makes his speech he is interrupted by...
A largely fictionalised black comedy based on the activities of the eponymous grave robbers. In this version of events, one of the motivations for the criminal actions of William Burke (Simon Pegg) is his...
Radio programme exploring how actors come to terms with ageing, and draws parallels with how old age is portrayed on stage and screen. From characters like Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave via...
Feature film. In a small village in western Jutland, John leads an isolated life as a grave-digger. During the winter a city school teacher coaches the tiny population is an amateur production of Hamlet....
Radio series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris. In this episode Jude Kelly, artistic director of London’s Southbank Centre, nominates Edwardian theatre producer Lilian Baylis. Among various...
US variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. This episode includes includes an extract (5 min 45 secs) in which Orson Welles (in costume and make-up) performs Lear’s speech from IV, vii (`You do me wrong to take...
Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of...
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