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Pioneering, influential and often challenging, Armchair Theatre was ITV’s flagship drama anthology series. Bringing high-quality drama to the viewing public, the series easily demonstrated the network’s...
Anthology arts series. Examines why The Tempest, still holds such fascination for modern audiences. Melvyn Bragg investigates the events surrounding the writing of the play, including contemporary interest...
Detective series. In this episode Lewis and Hathaway investigate the murder of a young actor during a preview of an open-air student production of The Merchant of Venice. A quotation from Hamlet is found by...
Anthology arts series. In this final edition of The South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg goes behind the scenes at the Royal Shakespeare Company as it embarks on an ambitious programme of work inspired by...
Documentary. Melvyn Bragg interviews Judi Dench at the Rose Theatre, Kingston where she is appearing as Titania in Peter Hall’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are no extracts from the...
Anthology arts series. The programme examines how the ideas which Shakespeare’s play addresses (tyranny, ambition, power) have resonances in twentieth and twenty-first century politics and political...