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US variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. The episode includes the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet (7 mins) enacted by Sarah Churchill and John O’Hare.
`Concise acting versions’ of ten plays read by Richard Burton, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Anna Massey, Sarah Churchill, Michael Redgrave, Peter Finch, Peter O’Toole and others. The...
Television documentary series. The series examines the influence of famous British people. From a list of 100 people nominated by the public, the list was reduced to ten, each personality then becoming the...
1: Dr David Starkey examines the reign of Henry VIII and give his interpretation of the factors influencing the behaviour of the king and his administration. 2: Reveals that Queen Victoria was far from being...
Radio programme in which Winston Churchill’s nephew, Giles Romilly, talks about some of the impressions left by reading Shakespeare’s plays during his solitary confinement as a POW at Tittmoning castle,...
Sound recording. Professor Stanley Wells delivers The Shakespeare Lecture at the 1987 Cheltenham Literature Festival. Wells discusses Shakespeare’s plays as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb, Mary Seymour,...
Television production of the play directed for stage by George Schaefer and for NBC by Albert McCleery with Maurice Evans in the title role. Heralded as a major cultural invasion into the world of commercial...
Independent Local Radio programme. Kenneth Branagh talks to Gill Pyrah on the opening of his film HENRY V, his debut as a film director. He speaks about his role as director, challenges in filming including...
A reading of an abridged version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with a cast led by Stanley Holloway (Bottom) and Annette Crosbie (Puck), directed and narrated by Dennis Vance.
Abridged version of the play arranged and produced for radio by Peter Creswell. With Fay Compton as Beatrice and Godfrey Tearle as Benedick.