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Film director and gay rights activist von Praunheim was given 40 000 Deutsche Mark by the West German public broadcasting station WDR to produce a television opera. Von Praunheim’s operatic take on Macbeth...
Radio broadcast. Last in a six-part series of talks by Dover Wilson, introducing Shakespeare’s tragedies to a general audience. This week’s talk ends the discussion of Hamlet which Dover Wilson...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Dr. Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown University) about her new book, The Private Life of Shakespeare, which examines in details the primary sources available to us on the life...
Chidren’s television series hosted by twins John and Edward Grimes who travel round the country visiting the UK’s historical sites. Here, the Jedward boys compete head-to-head to see who’ll be the...
Radio broadcast. Neville Coghill introduces Shakespeare’s ‘dark’ comedy, suggesting that it is dark "not because it reflects Shakespeare’s despair but because it deals with the problem of sin" (Radio...
Tenth in a twelve-part series of schools talks by J.C. Stobart and R.E. Jeffrey about the portrayal of kings in Shakespeare’s plays.
4-disc DVD containing the four plays transmitted as part of the BBC’s THE HOLLOW CROWN series - Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 and Henry V. See the individual entries for full cast, broadcast and...
Ninth in a twelve-part series of schools talks by J.C. Stobart and R.E. Jeffrey about the portrayal of kings in Shakespeare’s plays.
Podcast. Dr. Pamela Allen Brown talks to Barbara Bogaev about the impact of the Italian troups that played for English audiences from the 1570s onwards and which included actresses - the so-called ‘Dive’...
Radio talk by BBC Productions Director Val Gielgud on the making of the recent broadcast version of Macbeth (12/3/1933; see separate entry) for which he was the joint producer. Gielgud discusses current...
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