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Radio comedy series written by and starring Fred Allen. Maurice Evans and Allen joke about the misfit between lowbrow radio and highbrow culture (Shakespeare). Evans performs an extract from the ghost scene...
Martin Jarvis reads the ‘William and the Lost Tourist’ from William the Conquerer written by Richmal Crompton. Learning a speech from Julius Caesar proves unexpectedly useful in coming to the assistance...
Video recording of the play by Suleyman Al-Bassam. . In a totalitarian state somewhere in the Arab World, all forms of theatre have been banned, but a condemned 1960’s classic play has become the focal...
Arts strand of the televison documentary series, THIS WEEK. An 18 minute item contains scenes from Barbara Garson’s satirical play MacBird (a skit on Lyndon B. Johnson). MacBird learns from a fruit machine...
Six-part mystery serial, written and adapted for broadcasting by Simon Brett and featuring the character of Charles Paris (Francis Matthews), actor and unwilling amateur detective. In this second episode...
Radio play based on the short story ‘Excursion in Reality’ by Evelyn Waugh (1932), adapted for broadcasting by Olga Klaenforth. Waugh’s satire on the film industry features the visionary studio...
A burlesque of Macbeth which imagines how the play would be adapted and filmed by an American producer. The New York Times critic, reviewing the London screening, noted ‘The drama ends happily with a...
A sketch from the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe, written and performed by Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller, and first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1960. The sketch...
Edward Petherbridge links masterclass presentations with live excerpts from his one-man stage show. Each of the seven videos shows him in discussions and rehearsal work with students in a practical enquiry...
Series looking at the poetry of the past six centuries. 1: Establishes the continuity and variety of English verse throughout the past six centuries using extracts from poems, with readings from Chaucer,...
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