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First in a series of ten radio programmes in which various aspects of Shakespeare’s life and work are discussed by scholars and theatre practitioners. In this episode the speaker is Margaret Webster,...
The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with David...
Musical comedy. A young man (Green) aspires to a career as a radio star. Along the way, the falls in love with a scientist’s daughter (Lockwood). He then adds several talented friends to his act and...
Radio broadcast. Louise Swan surveys film adaptations of Shakespeare, examining the work of directors such as Laurence Olivier, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Derek Jarman, Kozintsev, Max Reinhardt,...
A film version of Maxine Peake as Hamlet in the 2014 staging at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. Sarah Frankcom directs for stage, Margaret Williams for screen.
Radio adaptation of Richard III by James and Elizabeth Hart with Laurence Olivier as Richard and Ralph Richardson as Buckingham.
Shakespeare’s comedy adapted for radio by Marianne Helweg with Mendelssohn’s music. Margaret Rawlings performs as Oberon, Fay Compton is Titania, Ralph Richardson plays Bottom. Produced by Val Gielgud.
Documentary. Attempts to recreate Elizabethan times to gain insight into Shakespeare’s life and personality.The programme, hosted by Willis F. Woods, was videotaped on location at the Detroit Institute of...
Feature film. Costume melodrama, told in flashback, and based on the novel by Lady Eleanor Smith. A gypsy fortune teller warns Regency beauty Clarissa that her friendship with downtrodden actress Hesther...
Radio production. The Norwich Players with James Roose Evans as Macbeth and Margaret Gordon as Lady Macbeth perform scenes from Macbeth.