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Television variety show. In one sketch Eva Gabor reveals an ambition to play Shakespeare but her manservant (Wattis) puts a stop to it. No further details available (6/2007).
Radio programme commemorating the quincentenary of the death of Richard III at Bosworth. Laurence Olivier’s recital of the opening monologue of Shakespeare’s play is followed by William Walton’s score...
Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 2: Confronted by the increasingly maddening (and mad) behaviour of her boyfriend, a nineties Ophelia discusses the nature of...
Series of comedy playlets starring Jimmy Edwards, with June Whitfield and Ronnie Barker. This episode parodied The SPREAD OF THE EAGLE BBC series. Set in Roman Britain the play incorporated cod Shakespearean...
Variety show from the ABC Theatre, Blackpool,introduced by Tony Hancock. This episode includes a ca. 5 min. sketch in which Tony Hancock, wearing costume and wig, performs a Shakespearean stand-up routine,...
Documentary film about contemporary British art and culture. Includes a brief scene from Peter Hall’s production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company in which David Warner delivers a soliloquy.
Radio broadcast. The story of Falstaff is told in scenes from Shakespeare’s Henry IV and an epilogue from Henry V. With Frederick Lloyd as Falstaff. Produced by Barbara Burnham.
Radio adaptation of Measure for Measure by Peter Kavanagh with Ronald Pickup as the Duke and Saskia Reeves as Isabella.
Radio drama by Martyn Wade. Based on a true story, William Ireland was an unhappy child, born in the 18th century, who wanted to impress his brutal father. He wrote, and then claimed to have discovered,...
Arts and media programme presented by Sarah Dunant. Includes an item (16 mins) on Russian theatre director Yuri Lyubimov rehearsing Hamlet with English actors at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester. Lyubimov...
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