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Radio drama by Ronald Frame. An imagined account of a summer day at Verdi’s country retreat. The ageing composer intends a quiet day working on the French translation of his opera Falstaff. Three surprise...
Series on literature presented by Robert Robinson. This episode includes an item in which Robinson introduces Judith Cook’s book Women in Shakespeare. An interview with historian and literary scholar A.L....
Specially written for the BBC, this radio play by Peter Terson is a working class take on Three Men In a Boat. It is set in Stratford-Upon-Avon, with the lads off on a barge to soak up some culture via the...
A masterclass on speaking and performing Shakespeare introduced by Trevor Nunn and led by John Barton who works with Royal Shakespeare Company actors Alan Howard, Michael Pennington, David Suchet, Ian...
Musical short. Created as a tie-in for Dieterle and Reinhardt’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) the film imagines a hybrid between Shakespeare and swing music. An assistant director is told to read all...
Television production shot entirely in a studio with Michael Hordern in the title role.
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 6 - Stephen Tompkinson performs ‘If music be the film of love’ from...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1986 production of The Winter’s Tale. Directed by Terry Hands with Penny Downie as Hermione/Perdita and Jeremy Irons as...
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