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Classic radio comedy series. In this episode, in a running sketch entitled ‘The Backroom Boys of the BBC’ Bill Pertwee, as a military commander, rallies the backroom boys (the laughmakers) who infiltrate...
Documentary. Actor David Harewood has five days to turn a group of teenagers from his old school, Washwood Heath Technology College, Birmingham into Shakespearean performers capable of appearing on the stage...
Feature film directed by Charles L. Gaskill with Helen Gardner as Cleopatra.
Soloman Mikhoels in his dressing room putting on his masks and make-up to play King Lear. Scenes of him playing Lear on stage.
Regional television broadcast. Royal Shakespeare Company actors Miles Anderson and Tony Armatrading, with company administrator Gordon Scammell, audition teenagers in Darwen Public Library for the few...
British newsfilm. The auction of the Shakespeare Memorial Exhibition collection of over ninety items. A pen and ink sketch of Shakespeare by Pablo Picasso is auctioned and shown briefly. It fetched £1000....
How did Shakespeare’s Othello develop into Verdi’s Otello and which of the two works is the greater? Opinions differ as do interpretations. Jonathan Miller, who has recently directed Shakespeare’s play...
Radio broadcast. A musical version of The Taming of the Shrew written especially for Columbia Workshop. Few of Shakespeare’s lines survive in the modern dialogue. Carleton Young and Nan Sunderland play...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Katherine Duncan-Jones is Professor Emerita of English Literature at Oxford. Her book, Portraits of Shakespeare, was published by Oxford’s Bodleian Library in...
A two-part unit of five programmes which exploits the appeal of box office hits to deliver ingredients for serious media analysis. The first three programmes which form part 1 go behind the scenes of the...
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