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Music-hall entertainer Bransby Williams filmed enacting scenes of a character from youth to old age. Williams had enjoyed a stage success with this performance.
Animation version of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. sagas televised in six parts. Wyrd Sisters is a parody on Macbeth. Granny Weatherwax returns, along with fellow witches Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick. The...
Comedian Tony Hancock performing in sketches at the Royal Festival Hall, London. In one sketch (c. 5mins) Hancock appears as Lear with Joe Ritchie as the Fool, both in cod Elizabethan costume (mid-way...
Actor and teacher Ben Crystal discusses his passion for Shakespeare and its value in education at the PiXL English Conference at Central Hall Westminster, London, on National Poetry Day, 4 October 2018.
Radio version of Shakespeare’s late play produced by Charles Lefaux starring Rachel Gurney as Hermione and Stephen Murray as Leontes. The music is selected and arranged by Anthony Hall.
Sound recording. Actor Geoffrey Hutchings delivers The Shakespeare Lecture at the 1984 Cheltenham Literary Festival. From Cheltenham Town Hall.
An audio recording of Benjamin Britten’s operatic version of the play. Bejun Mehta (Oberon), Íride Martínez (Tytania), Jack Morlen (Puck), Timothy Robinson (Lysander), Jared Holt (Demetrius), Tove...
Radio broadcast of a concerto version of Verdi’s Macbeth with Lado Ataneli in the title role, alongside Susan Neves as Lady Macbeth. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus...
A recording of Benjamin Britten’s operatic version of the play. The Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the London Philharmonic Orchestra are conducted by Bernard Haitink. James Bowman is Oberon and Ileana...
Sooty and his friends put on a production of Romeo and Juliet to prove to Aunt Catarina, the theatre cat, that they do know something about Shakespeare.