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Shankar Vedantam presents a look at the way a people is dehumanised before a genocide. Featuring the experiences and theories of Ervin Staub, it first looks at his experiences in Nazi Germany and then looks...
US cultural magazine series hosted by Alistair Cooke. In this episode Leonard Bernstein contends that since music is received directly by the heart and does not need to be processed by the brain first, opera...
Documentary series on evolutionary biology. In this episode presenter Dr Armand Leroi speaks of the levels of sophistication in the human brain and one of the examples given is Othello. Othello and Iago are...
Documentary about juvenile deliquency (smoking and drinking) in small town America. Towards the end of the film, after showing the delinquent (Joe) a chart of the human brain (and stating the damage alcohol...
Television arts documentary series presented by Melvyn Bragg. The episode includes interviews with Harold Bloom on why Shakespeare invented human nature, Kenneth Branagh on romantic love and his new film...
Television adaptation, heavily abridged, of Jane Austen’s novel. The scene in Chapter 34 in which Henry Crawford endeavours to recommend himself to Fanny Price by reading aloud from various characters in...
Fiction film. A re-telling of Macbeth set in the ganglands of Melbourne. Macbeth (Worthington), a loyal henchman to his crime boss Duncan (Sweet), is told by teenage witches that he will one day assume a...
Shakespeare’s history produced and directed for radio by Jane Morgan, with Ian Holm in the title role. With stereo effects and music by David Chilton and Mia Soteriou, played by Mike Brain, Roger Brenner,...
A live sound recording of Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet for the National Theatre Company with Peter O’Toole in the title role.
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