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Television arts documentary. Documentary on the film-maker Peter Greenaway with special reference to PROSPERO’S BOOKS. The programme covers Greenaway’s approach to film-making and narrative, showing how...
A comic murder mystery conceived and staged by Forkbeard Fantasy to mark their 30th year in the theatre. Set in 1904 in the pioneering days of cinema, a group of fledgling movie makers, desperate to...
Radio broadcast for schools. Eduard Klein introduces the programme and reads the essay ‘Shakespeare - Fürst des Lichts’ ('Shakespeare - Prince of Light’) from Pablo Neruda’s collection of prose...
First episode in a five-part series of selected readings from John Gielgud’s correspondences through the decades. The episode focuses on Gielgud playing the lead in the 1936 production of Hamlet on...
Television documentary. John Gielgud answers questions from a group of RADA students about his career and profession and gives firm but courteous criticisms. On the subject of Shakespeare and film he thought...
A filmed record (with Beerbohm Tree’s consent) of the opening storm scene from his stage production of The Tempest. Urban’s catalogue describes the scenes thus: ‘This remarkable picture, taken under...
Early films from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, shown in their entirety. Titles are ‘The drunkard’s reformation’ (March 1909), made by the American Motoscope...
Two programmes relating to course AA306, Shakespeare: text and Performance. Band 1) Theatre Games: Dramatist Clive Barker, actress Fiona Shaw and Cicely Berry, voice director of the Royal Shakespeare...
Radio broadcast. Patrick Spottiswoode, Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe, explores Germany’s intense relationship with Shakespeare, using archive and recorded performances from celebrated...
John Gielgud, in conversation with John Miller, looks back on his early career, the other artists who influenced him, and his partnerships with Oliver, Richardson, Wolfit, Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft and Edith...