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Sonnet 18 read in costume by Ben Kingsley, followed by a discussion of the sonnet by Professor Leslie Fiedler. The sonnet is then performed again in light of the commentary.
Radio adaptation of the play specially adapted for broadcasting in a Prologue and seven scenes by Val Gielgud and E.A. Harding. With Robert Speaight as Prospero, Angela Baddeley as Miranda and Ralph...
A radio programme of Shakespearean songs arranged by George Walter and recorded by Leslie French (tenor). The music included: ‘It was a lover and his lass’ (Morley), ‘Under the greenwood tree’...
Sonnet 144 read in costume by John Hurt, followed by a discussion of the sonnet by Professor Leslie Fiedler who sees the poem as the key to understanding the whole cycle. The sonnet is then performed again...
Inspired by the 2012 exhibition ‘Shakespeare: Staging the World’. at the British Museum Liz Unna looks at pagan rites and rituals in Shakespeare’s work. She captures the Abbotts Bromley horn dance and...
Feature propaganda film and a wartime sequel to The SCARLET PIMPERNEL (d. Harold Young, 1934) also starring Leslie Howard. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, an English archaeologist...
Radio broadcast on an excerpt from the play focuses on the character of Beatrice. Arranged for radio by Herbert Farjeon. With Leslie Stokes as speaker.
Third in a series of ten educational radio programmes in which various aspects of Shakespeare’s life and work are discussed by scholars and theatre practitioners with illustrative excerpts from his plays...
Radio programme featuring a pastoral sequence from Shakespeare’s plays, songs and sonnets, prefaced by Sonnet 18 from which the title is derived. Includes scenes from As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s...
Radio production of the play adapted and produced by Barbara Burnham. With Leslie Howard in the title role.
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