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Philip French introduces a programme from the BBC Sound Archives. Tyrone Guthrie celebrates Shakespeare on his 400th anniversary.
Radio broadcast. Louise Swan surveys film adaptations of Shakespeare, examining the work of directors such as Laurence Olivier, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Derek Jarman, Kozintsev, Max Reinhardt,...
Berlioz’s dramatic symphony directed for television and video by Klaus Lindemann. Colin Davis conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. With Philip Langridge (tenor), Peter Meven (bass)...
Feature film. London in the 1660s, and a declaration from King Charles II (Rupert Everett) legalising female actors puts the girl-boy specialist Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) out of a job. His former dresser...
A television recording of Laurent Pelly’s stage production of King John produced for the 1998 Festival d’Avignon. Gregoire Ostermann is King John.
Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2002 production of Edward III directed by Anthony Clark with David Rintoul in the title role.
Feature film. Anne Goupil is a student in Paris. She is disturbed when a girl in the next room talks of the mysterious death of a friend, Juan, saying that ‘they’ have killed him and implicating Anne’s...
Radio adaptation of Twelfth Night with Leslie French, Peggy Ashcroft and Thea Holme. Anthony Hulme performs as (narrative) Chorus. Music arranged by Elizabeth Poston, and played by the Aeolian string quartet.
Live relay of the Saturday matinee performance of Gounod’s opera from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Guy Joosten directs for stage. Placido Domingo conducts. The Met’s production is introduced...
Live audio recording of David Hare’s 1987 production of King Lear with Anthony Hopkins as Lear.