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Radio adaptation of King Lear by Archibald MacLeish. Narrated by Conway Tearle. Thomas Mitchell is Lear.
A television advertisement for Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut breakfast cereal. The following lines, a pastiche of John of Gaunt’s speech in Richard II, are read over Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1...
Video recording of Theatre for a New Audience’s 2002 production of Cymbeline directed by Bartlett Sher. Robert Staffel is Cymbeline. Videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Penny Ward.
Feature film. A recording of Fred Dunlop’s 1966 ‘Pop Theatre’ Edinburgh Festival production. Inadequately lit, poor colour, indifferent and over-emphatic performances, and a cinematic technique...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced by Peter Watts with John Gielgud in the title role. Alan MacNaughtan narrates.
In an alternative present, England is ruled by a military dictator, King Lear (Anthony Hopkins). In deciding upon his successor, Lear makes the mistake of being swayed by the flattery of his perspective...
A recording of the complete play by the Shakespeare Recording Society, Paul Scofield is Hamlet.
Schools broadcast of Shakespeare’s play. First in a new series of fortnightly performances of "notable plays in the history of English drama" (Radio Times programme listings).
BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette live from Covent Garden. Charles Mackerras conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal House, Covent Garden. Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu sing...
Schools broadcast of Shakespeare’s play. Fifth in a new series of fortnightly performances of "notable plays in the history of English drama" (Radio Times programme listings).