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From Just 14 Lines to the Complete Works (2007 Audio)

Comedian Lenny Henry and director Barrie Rutter talk about studying just 14 lines of Othello, and Peter Kirwan speaks on his year seeing every production in the RSC’s Complete Works Season.

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William and the Lost Tourist (2003 Radio)

Series

Just William - Live!

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...

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Romeo und Julia (1967 Film, Television)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Heide Draexler-Just

Producer

Erika Just

An East German made-for-television film of Tchaikovsky’s ballet choreographed by Juan Corelli.and performed by members of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. Stefan Lux and Ramona Gierth dance the title roles.

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King Lear Jet (1997 Television)

Series

Just Shoot Me!

Director

Lee Shallat-Chemel

US television sitcom about a former journalist, Maya Gallo, who begins a new job writing for her father’s women’s magazine Blush. Jack has two tickets for a London performance of King Lear, but when...

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Interviews with Paul Robeson and Mary Ure (1959 Television)

Series

Itv News

Reporter Elizabeth Kendrick interviews Paul Robeson and Mary Ure at the Stratford Memorial Theatre where they are about to open the season with Othello. Robeson and Mary Ure are in costume being interviewed...

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Like a Beautiful Smile (2003 Audio, Video)

aka: Inside the Songs of Sacred Love

The last track on SACRED LOVE, Sting’s ninth album, ‘Like a beautiful smile’ is a lyrical setting of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 ('Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’). In the DVD commentary,...

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Shakespeare with Tin Ears (1933 Film)

Director

Harry Sweet; Leslie Goodwins

RKO comedy short. The film has little relationship to Shakespeare and is included because of its delightful title. Two bums, Fat and Rivets, are hired by a rich man to make his daughter realise that her...

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Shakespeare, Language and the Elizabethan Mind (2011 Audio)

A talk by actor and author Ben Crystal. "What would it have been like to go to the theatre in Shakespeare’s time? Just as the English language was going through great change, so was the city of London. The...

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Lessons in Reality, Just from ‘Playing Shakespeare’ (2009 Radio)

Series

All Things Considered

Radio programme. As part of the 2-hour news and features programme hosted by Madeleine Brand and Melissa Block, Bob Mondello discusses the 25th anniversary DVD release of the nine-part television documentary...

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Withnail & I (1986 Film)

Director

Bruce Robinson

Producer

Paul Heller

Feature film. Black comedy about two down-on-their-luck actors holidaying in the Lake District in 1969. Richard Griffiths, as Withnail’s gay uncle, frequently quotes from Hamlet, and the film ends...

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