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Arts and media programme presented by Tracey MacLeod. Includes an item (11 mins) on British theatre director Michael Bogdanov, now Artistic Director of the Deutches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Includes scenes...
Mary-Ann Kennedy celebrates the global influence of Shakespeare’s work - with live performances including the visiting Nola Jazz band from New Orleans, and guest Andrew Dickson, author of "World Elsewhere:...
How did Shakespeare’s Othello develop into Verdi’s Otello and which of the two works is the greater? Opinions differ as do interpretations. Jonathan Miller, who has recently directed Shakespeare’s play...
Comedy series starring Tommy Cooper. Includes a sketch in which Tommy Cooper plays Hamlet. He begins the ‘to be or not to be’ speech which he interrupts with comic banter.
Radio broadcast previewing German composer Hans Werner Henze’s 8th Symphony which is inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conducted...
Topical. Scenes from Henry V performed by the boys of King Edward VI Grammar School, Stratford-upon-Avon. Ball (op cit) believes this production to be the first amateur Shakespeare film. Screened at The...
Live coverage of the England v France 2007 Rugby World Cup first semi-final at Stade de France, Paris presented by Jim Rosenthal. In the build-up coverage, Geoffrey Streatfeild, currently rehearsing the role...
Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Andrew Hadfield. Graymalkinis not only a witch’s familiar, argues Hadfield. She may also be...
Video recording of R. Jeffrey Cohen’s production of Measure for Measure. The production begins with a 22 min. sequence of the actor’ dancing.
Us television variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. This special broadcast covering the annual Festival of Two Worlds from Spoleto includes John Gielgud speaking a soliloquy from Richard II and Nora Kaye and...