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Newsreel item. Nurses and wounded soldiers at Bournbrook Military Hospital in Birmingham watch an open-air production of Twelfth Night.
Television serial, in seven parts, based on the Balkan and Levant trilogies, Olivia Manning’s autobiographical accounts of her travels with her husband Reggie Smith between 1939 and 1943. Together for the...
This six-episode podcast miniseries looks at the political currents that influenced Shakespeare and how they apply to the world today. Hosted by Isaac Butler. In ancient Rome, the people rise up to demand...
Documentary. Jennings’ deeply felt vision of life in Britain during the final year of World War II as lived by four representative characters - an engine driver, a farmer, a miner and an injured fighter...
Play based on The Merchant of Venice. Set among the black and Jewish populations in post-Civil War Washington, D.C., where passions simmer and societies realign, District Merchants is a tale of money,...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. A comment occuring late in this podcast : "Without Bacon and Shakespeare, we might not have won the war in the Pacific," states Bill Sherman, head of research at...
Stanley Wells, Editor of the ‘Oxford Shakespeare’, and John Wilders, Worcester College, Oxford, ask whether the play is a history, comedy or tragedy. They discuss the question in relation to the play’s...
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...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1983 production of Measure for Measure. Directed by Adrian Noble with David Schofield as Angelo and Juliet Stevenson as...
An About Anglia special presentation by Michael Robson to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, featuring a compilation of enactments of his work, and footage taken from Laurence...
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