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Based loosely on the plot of Love’s Labour’s Lost, the action of this much acclaimed ska musical is set in 1950s London. The Big Life follows the fortunes of a group of Caribbean immigrants arriving in...
Silent Chinese feature film based on The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Two young men graduate from a Shanghai military academy, and one Hu Luting (Valentine) accepts a posting in Guangzhou, chiding his friend...
A live sound recording of Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet for the National Theatre Company with Peter O’Toole in the title role.
In episode 12 of Season 1, Fraser investigates strange occurences in a private mental institution by posing as a madman. Hamlet’s "I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk...
Radio version of the play adapted and produced by Peter Watts and broadcast as part of a sequence of Shakespeare’s histories. With Valentine Dyall as Henry VI and Sonia Dresdel as Margaret of Anjou. The...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1985 production of As You Like It. Directed by Adrian Noble with Fiona Shaw as Celia and Juliet Stevenson as Rosalind....
Fifth episode in a fifteen-part televised series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies), effectively presenting a chronological history of British...
Radio series on the media world. In this edition Steve Hewlett talks about the the discovery by the British Film Institute of 100 hours of TV dramas from the 1960 believed lost lost until found recently by...
Schools broadcast based on the two parts of Henry IV, which was presented as a mini-series in seven parts following the fortunes of Falstaff. With music specially composed by Kenneth Leighton, starring Roger...
A compilation of 20 extracts from live recordings made by the British Library Sound Archive of Royal Shakespeare Company productions over four decades. The set offers scenes and speeches from some of the...
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