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Animation series. Pinky and the Brain are cartoon characters from the animated television series Animaniacs. They are genetically enhanced lab mice who reside in a cage in the Acme Labs research facility....
Radio broadcast. Russell Davies hosts a special Shakespeare-themed edition of the ‘Brain of Britain’ quiz to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. The guests contestants are...
From the depression of Hamlet to the guilt of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s work has many references to mental health. Academics and actors at Warwick Arts Centre explore issues such as depression,...
Science series presented by Quentin Cooper. The first item (c15mins) discusses the neurophysiological aspects of language taking Shakespeare as an example. When Shakespeare shifts words around and turns...
US cultural magazine series hosted by Alistair Cooke. In this episode Leonard Bernstein contends that since music is received directly by the heart and does not need to be processed by the brain first, opera...
Documentary series on evolutionary biology. In this episode presenter Dr Armand Leroi speaks of the levels of sophistication in the human brain and one of the examples given is Othello. Othello and Iago are...
Television arts documentary series presented by Melvyn Bragg. The episode includes interviews with Harold Bloom on why Shakespeare invented human nature, Kenneth Branagh on romantic love and his new film...
Television adaptation, heavily abridged, of Jane Austen’s novel. The scene in Chapter 34 in which Henry Crawford endeavours to recommend himself to Fanny Price by reading aloud from various characters in...
Shakespeare’s history produced and directed for radio by Jane Morgan, with Ian Holm in the title role. With stereo effects and music by David Chilton and Mia Soteriou, played by Mike Brain, Roger Brenner,...
A live sound recording of Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet for the National Theatre Company with Peter O’Toole in the title role.
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