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Radio programme. Series producer Rupert Lucas talks about the series and the response it generated. Also scenes from Hamlet directed by Charles Warburton and featuring Dennis King as Hamlet and Lucas as...
Television broadcast, introduced by Beryl Grey, in honour of the 200th anniversary of the Bolshoi Ballet. The company revives Romeo and Juliet, music by Prokofiev and choreography by Leonid Lavrosky....
Radio documentary. Twice a week for almost ten years 61-year-old actor Bob Smith (author of the memoir Hamlet’s Dresser) has travelled to New York City from his home in Connecticut to read Shakespeare with...
US sitcom about a group of seven castaways. Famous Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba, (Silvers, the guest star) arrives on the island. To impress him the castaways mount a musical version of Hamlet. The play...
BBC Radio 4 drama written by Helen Cross. On Shakespeare’s birthday in 1932 two young women set off from Birmingham to see the opening of the new theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. One dreams of meeting the...
Radio series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris. In this episode Jude Kelly, artistic director of London’s Southbank Centre, nominates Edwardian theatre producer Lilian Baylis. Among various...
Radio anthology drama series hosted by Ronald Colman. The series had the convention of asking celebrities to name their favourite story; the celebrity then appeared on the show to introduce the adaptation of...
Radio broadcast. Themed on the subject of work in all its aspects, this episode features Harriet Walter reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 27 (`Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed’), between Schubert’s...
Radio programme in which comedy writer and historian Glenn Mitchell explores what the BBC archives reveal about British comic legend Peter Sellers on the 30th anniversary of his death. In addition to the...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode poet Wendy Cope chooses Sonnet 29 as the piece of Shakespeare that inspired her most. Performed...