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Television production of the play, set in the year 800 and staged entirely in Granada’s Manchester studio, and one of the few not based on a prior stage production. With music specially composed by Gordon...
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...
Television detective drama. A pilot episode for an intended series and a spin-off from INSPECTOR MORSE. DI Lewis discovers that the chief suspect in a murder has previously been the subject of a case handled...
Sonnet 87 read in costume by John Hurt, followed by a discussion of the Sonnet by Dr Nicholas Humphrey. Dr Humphries argues that although the sonnet looks a love poem, it more accurately describes the deep...
Documentary on the authorship of Shakespeare’s play, concentrating on Edward de Vere as one of the likeliest alternative authors. Charlton Ogburn, Enoch Powell and Charles Vere, Earl of Burford argue...
Television soap opera. CORONATION STREET for many months had been running a story in which Mike Baldwin (played by Johnny Briggs) was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In this episode, confused and...
Television sitcom about night security staff. A reprise of an idea taken from an earlier programme in the series TAKEAWAY, which alluded to Richard II, but here with many references to King Lear. Carter and...
Detective series. Chief Inspector Charles Rose of Scotland Yard, now retired, revisits one of his old cases when the son of a celebrated archaeologist dies in an apparent car accident. His father had been...
A schools production of Macbeth influenced by Bogdanov’s experimental workshop in Birmingham where he explored the impact of Shakespeare on working-class people. Bogdanov uses urban buildings, and...
Compilation videotape. Shakespeare parodies and spoofs from the television holdings of the BFI National Archive, London. Compiled by Luke McKernan and Charles Fairall. THE BOWMANS (Hancock) [BBC tx 2.6.61]...
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