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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...
Radio broadcast of Shakespeare’s late play produced by R. E. Jeffrey. With Ernest Milton as Prospero and Moyna MacGill as Miranda. The incidental music, composed by Arthur Sullivan, is played by the...
Radio broadcast. Act I of Verdi’s opera relayed from The Old Vic, London, with Arthur Cox (Otello) and Sybil Crawley (Desdemona). Warwick Braithwaite conducts.
Radio drama anthology series. A broadcast of Richard II directed by Herbert Rice with Dennis King as Richard.
Radio broadcast. William Macready and Edna Godfrey-Turner, together with the Belfast Radio Players, present an abridged version of Shakespeare’s play. With incidental music by Sullivan.
Extracts of Shakespeare’s play broadcast in two 30-minute sequences with Ralph Richardson in the title role. Part 1 includes Hamlet’s first encounter with the Ghost, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and...
Examines the challenges in dealing with Shakespeare’s plays from a directing point of view. Taking scenes from Hamlet, stage director David Ritchie and film director Arthur Tanaka, discuss ways of...
Television comedy show hosted by Arthur Askey. This edition includes a running gag where Askey wants to prove himself a serious actor and quotes the ‘quality of mercy’ speech from The Merchant of Venice...
Shortened version of Shakespeare’s play adapted and produced for broadcasting by Barbara Burnham. With Malcolm Keen in the title role.
Radio broadcast. Dramatic critic James Agate illustrates the history of sixty years of dramatic art on the English stage with recorded extracts from Shakespearean plays. Featuring Lewis Waller as Henry V,...
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