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Chat show hosted by Clive James. Kenneth Branagh as a guest speaks of how his love of Shakespeare was formed partly by hearing Peter Sellers intoning The Beatles’s song ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ in the...
Radio programme in which comedy writer and historian Glenn Mitchell explores what the BBC archives reveal about British comic legend Peter Sellers on the 30th anniversary of his death. In addition to the...
Children’s puppet/live-action television series. The guest star is Peter Sellers who recites the ‘now is the winter of our discontent’ from Richard III in the manner of Laurence Olivier while...
A television recording, before an invited audience, of a radio broadcast from 5 October 1972, reuniting The Goons as part of the BBC’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Includes Peter Sellers whistling...
Feature film. Satirical comedy commenting on greed and fame and what people are prepared to do for money. Laurence Harvey plays a famous Shakespearean who, after being paid to do so by Peter Sellers,...
Television show in which Paul McCartney and John Lennon were joined by a number of artists, each giving their versions of Beatles’ songs. There is a comic tour de force from Peter Sellers, intoning ‘A...
Independent film. A gangster version of the play shot in black and white. The language is a mixture of Shakespeare’s text and contemporary speech.
Series which comments on and discusses the arts, presented by Russell Davies and Minette Marin. In this episode Marin hosts the fifteen-minute theatre review which focuses on Bill Alexander’s production of...
Video recording of a wordless movement and dance adaptation of the play by Synetic Theatre set in the gears of a giant clock. The plot concerns a romance between two teenagers from warring houses. Videotaped...
Faeture film dedicated in the pre-opening credit sequence to William McGonagall, the ‘greatest Bad Verse Writer of his age’. McGonagall, a Scottish weaver, falls in love with Queen Victoria at a music...
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