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From ‘accent’ to ‘zero’ - a humorous tour through the different topics covered in the course. People with a wide range of views on English, from countries as diverse as India, Jamaica, France,...
Series showcasing the talents of offbeat and irreverent comedians. This edition, taped before a live audience at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, includes a sketch entitled ‘Pink Tights and Plenty of...
Television charity variety show to support World Aids Day. The event was directed by Stephen Fry and directed for television by David G. Croft. Includes a sketch (c6 mins) in which Rowan Atkinson (in...
Sitcom. Comedy series set in the Middle Ages featuring the exploits of self-serving Blackadder (Atkinson). Reversing history’s perceptions Richard is a kindly monarch and Henry Tudor a self-serving...
A comedy gala to benefit Amnesty International staged at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. The evening consisted of comedy sketches and music. One sketch, written by Richard Sparks, features Atkinson as a...
Anthology arts series. The programme examines how the ideas which Shakespeare’s play addresses (tyranny, ambition, power) have resonances in twentieth and twenty-first century politics and political...
Comedy series. Prince George is worried about his popularity after an anarchist throws a bomb at him. He agrees to recite a brilliant speech by Blackadder, "to show the oppressed masses how unusually...
Feature animation film. At Pride Rock in Africa, a young lion prince, Simba, is born to Mufasa, king of the lions thus making his embittered and politically ambitious uncle, Scar, the second in line to the...
A film charting British history since Roman times, made especially for the Millennium Dome in London. In the Shakespeare sketch at a 1999 New Year’s Eve dinner party given by Edmund Blackadder for old...
Compilation videotape. Shakespeare parodies and spoofs from the television holdings of the BFI National Archive, London. Compiled by Luke McKernan and Charles Fairall. THE BOWMANS (Hancock) [BBC tx 2.6.61]...
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