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A recruitment film for the Home Guard. (`It might make Hitler think twice’). A Home Guard officer in a village pub talks to his friends about his week at a Home Guard training school. He describes the...
Swedish feature film about relationships in a retirement home starring well-known Bergman actors Jan Malmsjo, Ghita Norby and Erland Josephson. Retired theatre director Walter tries to get erstwhile stage...
Sitcom about the Taylor family set in suburban Detroit. In this episode the neighbour Mr Wilson becomes the director of Randy’s school play, Romeo and Juliet. Brief extracts from Act 1, v and II, ii are...
Themed episode of the series in which two teams of amateur antique collectors have an hour to acquire the best bargains on a budget and then see what happens when the items are sold at auction. Presented by...
Studio performance of Verdi’s opera in Italian. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Chorus are conducted by Stanford Robinson, with Renato Gigli as Otello and Marko Rothmuller as Iago.
Feature film. B-movie thriller in which a modernised Hamlet is set in Florida and to rock music. Hamlet is a young man who returns home to discover that his father was murdered nine months previously. Based...
US legal drama series set in Indianapolis, focusing on prosecutor Annabeth Chase who takes on cases in her suburban neighbourhood. In this episode, teenage siblings Tracy and Scott (an adopted child) are...
Radio adaptation of Twelfth Night with Leslie French, Peggy Ashcroft and Thea Holme. Anthony Hulme performs as (narrative) Chorus. Music arranged by Elizabeth Poston, and played by the Aeolian string quartet.
John Gielgud reads a selection of Shakespeare’s sonnets. In a second programme, broadcast 26 April at the same time, John Neville read from the sonnets. Neville’s reading is not held by the BBC.
Radio broadcast presented by Derek Bowskill. Group improvisations based on the opening scene of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.