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A recording, written and produced by D.H. VanLenten for Bell Telephone Laboratories that contains samples of computer-synthesized speech. Track 4 is a soliloquy from Hamlet.
Musical series featuring classical and Broadway music. This episode, hosted by Ginger Rogers, celebrates the quatercentenary of Shakespeare’s birth.
Comedy sketch series. Includes a sketch in which Benny Hill is a programme planner on the telephone to an up-and-coming writer William Shakespeare. No further details known [10/2007].
Radio debate series. Chairman Nick Clarke debates the motion ‘The Heritage Industry Distorts British History’ from the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Listeners are invited to telephone or...
29 of Shakespeare’s sonnets delivered by four young people (collectively and individually) in pastoral settingsas well as at the breakfast table, over the telephone, and as a stand-up comedy routine....
Comedy radio show. This episode features the world premiere of Romeo and Juliet for telephone. No further information found [April 2010].
Documentary, hosted by Donald Voorhhes, about the weeks of preparation and rehearsals leading up to the world premiere opening night performance of Samuel Barber’s opera Antony and Cleopatra at the new...
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...
American television satirical animation series. In this episode Homer and the family visit London. Walking past a theatre, they encounter Ian McKellen, currently appearing in Macbeth. Unaware of the...
Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. Includes a 7-minute report on a strange gap in the BBC Television Shakespeare series: the 1978 production of Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Donald...
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