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Educational videotape describing multidisciplinary arts approaches to Shakespeare’s The Tempest showing how theatre in education can aid understanding.
Anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. A documentary on electronic music. The programme also promotes a specially commissioned piece by Tim Souster based on Caliban’s speech.
Documentary compilation. A commemoration of the coronation of King George VI, released during coronation week. It relates the story of the British Empire from 1895 to George’s proclamation as king....
Radio broadcast. Professor Jerry Brotton examines Queen Elizabeth I’s fascination with the Orient and Britain’s first contacts with the Muslim world. Read by Derek Jacobi. 5: How the London stage...
Advertisement. A series of advertisements for the F-type Jaguar coupe designed to show how classic a Jaguar is. In the opening sequence Tom Hiddleston quotes John of Gaunt’s "this sceptred isle" speech...
An experimental short, shot on Super 8, by amateur British filmmaker Reg Lancaster. The film is inspired by the public sector workers’ strike in 1978-79 which brought about the downfall of Callaghan’s...
Feature film. Anna Neagle is a supposed Nazi sympathiser who is really British to the core and helps foil a German plot to blow up a harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film opens with two British air-raid...
Feature film version of the novel by Baroness Orczy set in the French Revolution. At the end of the film, the Scarlet Pimpernel, when he encounters his arch-rival Blakeney, quotes part of John of Gaunt’s...
Feature film. Story set in an hotel, concerning the activities of four groups of people, including two detectives trying to solve a murder which happened in there. All the characters read from literary...
Radio drama, a collaboration between Radio Drama North and the Northern Broadsides Theatre Company. Directed by Kate Rowlands with Barrie Rutter as Richard.
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