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Radio debate series. Chairman Nick Clarke debates the motion ‘The Heritage Industry Distorts British History’ from the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Listeners are invited to telephone or...
Radio documentary. Jeremy Nicholas investigates the current status of Shakespeare in the popular imagination; he talks to representatives from the acting profession, teachers, children and people in the...
Short. A satire on the film industry as if it existed in Elizabethan times. Film director William Shakespeare shoots HAMLET in one reel and in one take. When he screens his 15-minute film for the studio...
Martin Jarvis reads the ‘William and the Lost Tourist’ from William the Conquerer written by Richmal Crompton. Learning a speech from Julius Caesar proves unexpectedly useful in coming to the assistance...
Television documentary. Joan Bakewell visits Stratford-upon-Avon where Shakespeare has become the object of adoration, scholarship and commerce as the heritage industry grows. She visits his supposed...
The story of how, 400 years ago, two actors and friends of William Shakespeare took on the task of saving his work for posterity in one book, the First Folio. Interviewees include Professor Emma Smith,...
Radio documentary. From the Sir John Falstaff Goblet Collection to the complete plays on CD Rom, Shakespeare is alive in multitudinous ways. But in what state is the English national poet at the new...
US sitcom, created by Suzanne Martin, featuring three past-their-prime entertainment industry veterans from Los Angeles whose lives are changed when their ‘plane bound for Paris lands in Cleveland, Ohio....
Heather Neill talks to Paapa Essideu about tackling the role of Hamlet to critical acclaim in Simon Godwin’s 2016 staging for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Director Jonathan Munby talks to Heather Neill about his production of Antony and Cleopatra for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre with Clive Wood and Eve Best in the title roles.