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Edinburgh Festival

Date released

25 Aug 1960

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1629A

NoS ID

023747

Story no

4 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Edinburgh Festival. DESCRIPTION: Maintaining tradition, the 14th International Festival of Music and Drama opened with a Service of Praise at St Giles. Lord Provost Dunbar read the...

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Shakespeare at the Movies (2001 Audio)

Music from filmed Shakespeare plays performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic and Crouch End Festival Chorus, conducted by Paul Bateman, Nic Raine and Kenneth Alwyn. Also included are well known dialogue...

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Discovery of England’s Past, The (2003 Radio)

Series

Discovery of England, The

Producer

Matthew Dodd

Three-part radio series presented by Jonathan Bate. In the first episode Bate shows how Elizabethans under Queen Elizabeth presided over a flowering of literature and maps and ‘discovered England’. Bate...

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Twelfth Night (1923 Radio)

Producer

Cathleen Nesbitt

Shakespeare’s comedy adapted for radio and produced by Cathleen Nesbitt, who also plays both Viola and Sebastian to Gerald Lawrence’s Orsino. With music by Henry Purcell performed by the Wireless...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: The Labour Landslide

Date released

30 Jul 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

843

NoS ID

013515

Story no

2 / 2

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Labour Landslide. DESCRIPTION: Three weeks ago votes were recorded in the General Election and at that time nobody would have predicted a working majority for the Labour Party. The...

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Johnny Shakespeare (2007 Television)

Series

Afternoon Play, The

Director

Jim Cartwright

Television drama written and directed by Jim Cartwright. Johnny comes from a broken home and lives with his alcoholic, bingo-addicted gran on a housing estate. He is illiterate. He meets Diane, a drama...

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Henry VI (1971 Radio)

Producer

Raymond Raikes

The Henry VI trilogy abridged and produced by Raymond Raikes and broadcast in two parts. Part 1. Nigel Lambert is King Henry. Ian McKellen plays both Richard, Duke of York and his son, Richard, Duke of...

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Harold Holtzer on Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare (2009 Multimedia, Television, Video)

Lincoln historian Harold Holzer discusses Abraham Lincoln’s interest in the writings of Shakespeare and his penchant for quoting the playwright and attending his plays. President Lincoln carried a volume...

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King Lear (1999 Video)

Director

Michael Kahn

Video recording of Michael Kahn’s 1999 production of King Lear for the Shakespeare Theatre Company with Ted van Griethuysen as Lear. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.

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Tongues in Trees (2007 Audio)

Dawn Matheson’s exhibit, Tongues in Trees, was an outdoor installation in MacDonald Stewart Art Centre as a part of the Shakespeare-Made in Canada Festival. For the piece, seven adult learners from Action...

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