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Radio programme investigating some settings of British composers whose music has been inspired by Shakespeare. It features songs by John Gardner (Nos 1, 2, 4, 5), Vaughan Williams, Cyril Rootham, Giles...
Four-part television thriller by Nigel Williams which loosely retells the Hamlet story set in London’s Docklands at the time of its commercial development. Roland (Firth) lives with his mother Maria...
Two scenes from The Tempest with music by Elizabeth Poston conducted by John Russell. An experiment in stereo broadcasting; the programme was transmitted on Network 3 wavelengths (medium wave and VHF) (left)...
Television drama by Francis Cockrell based on Rupert Croft-Cook’s original story. In order to get a murderer to confess, a detective hires a famous Shakespearean actress to play the ghost of the dead man,...
Shakespeare’s play, produced and adapted for radio by Frank Hauser. Incorporates passages from North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives. Pamela Brown stars as Cleopatra opposite Godfrey Tearle as Mark...
Musical version of Shakespeare’s play The Merry Wives of Windsor set in Texas in the 1860s. Conceived and adapted by John L. Haber, music and lyrics by John Herrick. Directed for the stage by Michael...
Radio broadcast. To mark Shakespeare’s 444th birthday, pianist and presenter Iain Burnside presents music inspired by Shakespeare and talks to guest Nicholas Hytner, director. The playlist ranges from...
Live sound recording of Clifford Williams’ 1967 all-male production of As You Like It with Ronald Pickup as Rosalind and Jeremy Brett as Orlando. Anthony Hopkins is Audrey.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1996 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Directed by David Thacker with Benjamin Whitrow as Falstaff.
Cold war spy thriller based on the novel Call for the Dead by John Le Carre, about espionage in London. Includes Edward’s death scene (specially staged for the film) of a Royal Shakespeare Company...
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