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Gwyn Richards searches for reasons why the monument to Shakespeare, erected in 1741 in Westminster Abbey, contains a passage from The Tempest which is misspelt. With David Vann as Prospero.
Leading actors perform some of Shakespeare’s greatest speeches in a video series to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from the start of Act I,...
British government-sponsored cinemagazine made for export to English-speaking countries. Tom Stoppard (smoking) is interviewed by Ian Morrison about British theatre, and talks briefly about his new play...
Propaganda short. Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man’s suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography. When the suit is being cut up to make clothes for the...
Inspired by the songs from "As You Like It", musician, Anjana Vasan, performs a musical triptych which follows the trajectory of a relations that doesn’t end well.
Accompanying event to the British Library’s ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition. The panellists discuss the political themes within Shakespeare’s plays and consider how he voiced the political...
Documentary reality show, in four parts, following a teaching project for sixteen disaffected and disruptive thirteen year olds, attempting to bring them back to the process of education and learning. The...
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...
Video podcast presenting an analysis of political and legal developments in late Elizabethan England and their representation in Shakespeare’s plays, focusing on contemporary debates concerning the powers...
Radio series in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced modern times. In this episode Melvyn Bragg discusses The Tempest with Jonathan Bate, Katherine...