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Second in a 3-part series examining Shakespeare in performance. Devised and produced by John Powell, the programmes are compiled with recordings from the Sound Archives featuring voices and opinions of...
An NBC radio recording of The Tempest with John Barrymore doubling the roles of Prospero and Caliban. The abridgement concentrates on the Caliban/Trinculo/Stephano and Miranda/Ferdinand subplots and includes...
Fiction film of Macbeth containing at least 17 sequences with the focus on the first half of the play. Shot largely in the studio, the film was not well received by the trade papers and its censorship by...
Radio version of Henry IV. Part 2 adapted by Vernon Radcliffe and narrated by Clayton Hamilton. Robert Ransom is Henry and Alfred Shirley, Hal.
Anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. In the second part of the programme (c25mins) Jonathan Pryce and director Richard Eyre talk about the staging of Hamlet at London’s Royal Court Theatre,...
Film of a stage performance of a version of King John.
An NBC radio recording of Twelfth Night.
Radio adaptation of a play written by Ronald Harwood which is based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. An actor-manager of the old school takes a Shakespearean company...
Transmitted live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Olivia Fuchs’s production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is presented by Stephanie Hughes. Richard Hickox conducts...
The second of three programmes on Macbeth presented by Dr Frank C. Baxter. Baxter analyses the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth believing that Macbeth has a deep and vivid imagination that envisions...
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