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Made-for-television film. Acclaimed recreation of the meeting between actress Coral Browne and British spy and defector Guy Burgess, in Moscow in 1958. The initial meeting took place in a theatre, where...
A reading of an abridged version of King Lear, with the cast including Sir Donald Wolfit, Rosalind Iden, Coral Browne and Barbara Jefford, directed by Donald Wolfit. Script adapted by Fiona Bentley and Morys...
Radio programme. Passages from the plays of Shakespeare are delivered in what was thought to be their original Elizabethan pronounciation. The programme is introduced by Daniel Jones, Professor Emeritus of...
Weekly international cabaret from a London theatre presented by Bernard Braden. In TV Times this episode announced among its items ‘Donald Wolfit and Leidman Brown in an exciting scene from Julius...
Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play arranged for broadcasting and produced by E. A. Harding. With Laidman Browne as Duke, Stephen Murray as Vincentio and Claire Bloom as Isabella. Singer Alfred Deller...
Independent fiction short. Four Elizabethan office workers find themselves in the high-rise office of a 16th-century therapist who bears a close resemblance to Shakespeare. They undergo group therapy in...
A reading of an abridged version of Othello with John Gielgud in the title role and Ralph Richardson as Iago.
Sound recording of Hamlet performed by members of the Old Vic Theatre Company with John Gielgud in the title role.
Radio adaptation of the play which was originally written for the stage by British playwright Clemence Dane (1888-1965). The plot links Shakespeare and the ‘Dark Lady’ of the sonnets with the mysterious...
Brecht wrote the scenes to train actors in his own method for performing classical drama. The scenes were intended to be strenuously rehearsed, but then omitted when the play was presented. The idea was to...
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