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Radio schools broadcast. The second story in the ten-part history series by Rhoda Power features an imaginary account of Shakespeare’s childhood intended for 13-14 year old schoolchildren.
Fiction short which shows Shakespeare suffering from writer’s block while planning the assassination scene in Julius Caesar. He falls asleep in his study and dreams of the scene he is to write. Shakespeare...
An excerpt showing scenes from the Old Vic Theatre Company production of Cymbeline with an introduction by British theatre actress Sybil Thorndike (1882-1976).
Radio broadcast. As part of a series of 26 weekly programmes "designed as an anthology of the best-known and best-loved speeches and scenes" from Shakespeare’s better known plays, two 30-minute episodes...
Radio broadcast on an excerpt from Henry V that focuses on the character of Fluellen. Arranged for radio by Herbert Farjeon and produced by Mary Hope Allen. With Leslie Stokes as speaker.
Children’s television series. Simon Cates, a teenage genius, has control the Visicron, a machine which has the power to bring famous faces from the past forward in time for 36 hours. During that short...
A 2-CD set features historic recordings of celebrated people in the arts, drama, the sciences, sport and exploration. Shakespeare-related items include Ellen Terry as Ophelia and Sir Henry Irving as Richard...
Radio broadcast. Second in a series of 26 weekly programmes "designed as an anthology of the best-known and best-loved speeches and scenes" from Shakespeare’s better known plays. Broadcast in two parts,...
Short fiction film. A study of colonialism through the character of Caliban.
Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon. Among the various stage plays that he praises for their comic qualities, he discusses J. M. Barrie’s ‘Rosalind’. A "comedy of...
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