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Arts strand of the televison documentary series, THIS WEEK. An 18 minute item contains scenes from Barbara Garson’s satirical play MacBird (a skit on Lyndon B. Johnson). MacBird learns from a fruit machine...
US documentary series analysing the physiology and psychology of laughter. In episode 4, INHIBITION, E.B. Pettit (Chairman of Arts, Brandeis University) explains Freud’s theory that laughter helps people...
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...
Television documentary. Discusses the authorship of Shakespeare. Thomas Bokenham, chairman of the Francis Bacon Society, believes he has discovered a cypher system that Bacon used to encrypt messages in the...
A collection of films made by the University of Warwick in conjunction with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust about the life and times of William Shakespeare. In this film Professor Stanley Wells, Chairman...
Television news and current affairs programme presented by Jeremy Paxman. The programme includes a forty minute studio discussion following Adrian Noble’s resignation as Director of the Royal Shakespeare...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare’s time, only men appeared on stage, with teenage boys playing the women’s parts. Today, women play women and sometimes menand vice-versa. In...
Current affairs and news series. Includes an item (c 8min) on the Royal Shakespeare Company presented by Joan Bakewell. Trevor Nunn, Director of the RSC, makes a plea for increased funding and states that...
Audio lecture given by Michael Lupu, senior dramaturg for the Guthrie Theatre at the Directing Shakespeare Symposium. Lupu talks about audience expectations in the Elizabethan period, the history of...
Television documentary. Joan Bakewell visits Stratford-upon-Avon where Shakespeare has become the object of adoration, scholarship and commerce as the heritage industry grows. She visits his supposed...
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