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A version of the soap opera COMPACT as might have been written by Shakespeare. Produced as an experiment in stereo recording.
Shankar Vedantam presents a look at the way a people is dehumanised before a genocide. Featuring the experiences and theories of Ervin Staub, it first looks at his experiences in Nazi Germany and then looks...
Soap opera. Shakespeare is put to work writing soap opera. Jack Manning, in modern dress and using few props, pretends to be Hamlet’s ghost come back to earth to tell about the dark doings at Elsinore. He...
Radio comedy series. This episode focuses on a school production of Romeo and Juliet. Michael P. Jensen (op cit) observes ‘This truly dreadful program is a strange combination of comedy and soap...
British soap opera set in the rural English Midlands, In this episode Vicky (Rachel Atkins) marries the recently widowed milkman, Mike. At their wedding her new stepdaughter, Brenda, strongly against the...
Television comedy sketch show. Includes a two-minute sketch, written in Shakespearean English, which satirises the BBC television soap opera COMPACT about magazine publishers.
Brazilian soap opera. Romantic comedy loosely re-working the themes of The Taming of the Shrew. Set in Rio de Janiero, the soap tells the story of a 20-year-old independent woman and Petruchio who believes...
Television sitcom. A spin-off from the soap opera CORONATION STREET, featuring Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe) in the same fussy, pedantic role but now assistant manager of a northern chain store, Dobson and...
Radio programme exploring how actors come to terms with ageing, and draws parallels with how old age is portrayed on stage and screen. From characters like Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave via...
Documentary. Former members of the 10th Regiment of the outlawed Communist Party of Malaya, now living in exile as farmers in Thailand on the Narathuwat-Kelantan border, tell their story of the decades-long...
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