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A compilation of 20 extracts from live recordings made by the British Library Sound Archive of Royal Shakespeare Company productions over four decades. The set offers scenes and speeches from some of the...
Sound recording, before a live audience, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1964 production of Henry VI. Parts 1-3 directed by Peter Hall and John Barton. David Warner is King Henry.
Television documentary. Actors speak about about the challenge of performing Shakespeare. Their comments are illuminating - Ian McKellen believes his first thirty years of Shakespearean acting to have been...
Featuring the music of Nigel Hess and speeches heard from Christopher Luscombe’s 2014 Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Love’s Labour’s Lost (29 minutes) and Love’s Labour’s Won (aka Much...
Documentary. A film which contends that hatred of Jews goes back 2,000 years, culminating with the near destruction of European Jewry. Argues that for the last 400 years, Western attitudes towards Jews have...
Television arts documentary. When Ian McKellen joined the National Theatre in 1984, he was asked by The South Bank Show to keep an audiotape diary of his experiences as an actor over the next twelve months....
Simon Callow, who plays Sir Toby Belch in Peter Hall’s 2011 production for the National Theatre, London talks to Heather Neill about his understanding of the character. He also discusses the broader...
Second of a three-part televised adaptation of Shakespeare’s minor tetralogy (three parts of Henry VI and Richard III). Originally a Royal Shakespeare Company production directed by Peter Hall and John...
First of a three-part televised adaptation of Shakespeare’s minor tetralogy (three parts of Henry VI and Richard III) encompassing the period from the loss of the British Empire in France to the founding...
Radio adaptation of the play produced by Charles Lefeaux. With Geraldine McEwan as Olivia, Dorothy Tutin as Viola, Stephen Murray as Malvolio, and Maurice Denham as Sir Toby. Music arranged by Alan Boustead...
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