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Radio series. To celebrate the BBC’s November Shakespeare season, presenter Roger McGough introduces requests for verse by Shakespeare. Sonnets and excerpts read by Fiona Shaw and Barrie Rutter. (30 minutes)
A televised production of the play with Margaret Leighton as Rosalind and Laurence Harvey as Orlando.
Neil Aldrich recites Shakespeare’s sonnets, and other works, speculating about the recitative convention employed in the 17th century. The delivery is rap-like, very different from the performance norm....
Radio broadcast of scenes from various Shakespeare plays which, The Times listings suggest, were performed by the Temple Shakespeare Society. The programme was comprised of 2 scenes from Macbeth, scenes from...
Richard II adapted for radio, with Samuel West as Richard II and Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt. Introduced by Richard Eyre.
Two-part reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Adapted for radio by Paul Brennen and co-produced with Marion Nancarrow. The production was recorded entirely on location with a young cast. No...
Radio broadcast on an excerpt from Henry IV, Part 2 that focuses on the characters of Robert Shallow and Silence. Arranged for radio by Herbert Farjeon and produced by Mary Hope Allen. With Leslie Stokes as...
Radio broadcast. In this two-part programme Professor Michael Dobson explores the history of outdoor Shakespeare productions. The second episode (30/07/2007) focuses on the amateur theatre company.
Radio broadcast. The Tempest adapted and produced by Ian Cotterell with Paul Scofield as Prospero and Patrick Stewart as Caliban. With music composed by David Cain, and played by Mike Westbrook, Clive Heath,...
Extracts of Shakespeare’s play broadcast in two 30-minute sequences with Ralph Richardson in the title role. Part 1 includes Hamlet’s first encounter with the Ghost, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and...
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