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Radio drama. In Paul R. Hyde’s short story "a man encounters Shakespeare in a dream and finds him to be a scoundrel, a rogue - and a waiter in Verona" (Radio Times, programme notes, p. 127). The story is...
US comedy detective series. ATOMIC SHAKESPEARE opens with a boy who is disappointed that he has to read Shakespeare for his homework, rather than watch his favourite programme MOONLIGHTING. Dejectedly he...
Filmed at the John T. Brush Stairway, Washington Heights, Manhattan.
RKO comedy short. The film has little relationship to Shakespeare and is included because of its delightful title. Two bums, Fat and Rivets, are hired by a rich man to make his daughter realise that her...
Third in a series of four programmes, presented by Penny Gore, featuring music written for Shakespeare’s plays. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is joined by drama students from the Royal Scottish...
Television series of filmed classics. Charles Laughton recites from the Bible and other texts, reads poetry, tells stories and jokes including a reading from Twelfth Night (II iv).
Radio drama. A mother announces to her son that his father is dead and his uncle will take over the glass factory business. The narrator quotes Hamlet’s ‘to be, or not to be speech’ and tells the...
Post-apocalyptic nine-part mini series adapted from the novel by Emily St. John Mandel. It tells the story of Kirsten Raymonde and her Shakespeare troupe, the Travelling Symphony, whose motto is ‘Survival...
Fiction short set in 1948. Sebastian is a student at Harvard with dreams of becoming a literary scholar. He’s from a rich and influential family and has become engaged to the perfect girl. His life has a...
Live sound recording of Trevor Nunn’s production of The Winter’s Tale for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Judi Dench doubling the roles of Hermione and Perdita.
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