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Actor Simon Russell Beale looks back on The Hollow Crown, the BBC’s 2012 adaptations of Shakespeare’s Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V. Beale’s performance as Falstaff won him...
This edition includes an episode of Veterinarian Hospital (a parody of a soap opera) enacted by Miss Piggy and others which contains appalling Shakespearean puns and references throughout e.g. NURSE PIGGY:...
Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....
Cartoon short. A spoof on Romeo and Juliet, with Popeye the sailor as Romeo and Olive Oyl as Juliet. They sing their lines to the tunes of operatic arias.
Radio adaptation of All’s Well That Ends Well with Barbara Jefford as the Countess.
Television drama about the Regency dandy Beau Brummell focusing on his relationship with the Prince Regent. There are Shakespeare references throughout especially in two short scenes in which the Prince asks...
Television recording of a performance of 1 & 2 Henry IV staged at the Nemzeti Szinház (National Theatre), Hungary. Directed for stage by Gábor Zsámbéki with Ferenc Bessenyei as King Henry.
Radio broadcast. A two-part abridgement of Henry IV. Part II adapted for radio by Lister Sinclair. Role names not known (1/2008).
In this 2-minute phonogramme sample, recorded by Fritz Hauser in 1906, the 80-year old German actor and long-standing star of the Vienna Burgtheater, Bernhard Baumeister, declaims Falstaff’s speech from...
Radio comedy series written by Paul Mayhew-Archer about actor Robert Wilson (John Gordon Sinclair) who is trying to make it in the business. In this episode (1 of series 2), Wilson (despite his Scottish...
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