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The first experimental television transmission shown at the Radio Olympia exhibition. Two programmes were transmitted from Alexandra Palace daily throughout the Radio Show to September 5th. The programme...
The story of Romeo and Juliet retold in Notting Hill Gate, London, against a backdrop of murder, drugs, sex and rock ‘n’ roll.
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The period when Shakespeare was writing was one torn by disagreements over the proper method of observing Christianity in England. Protestantism was at war with...
Poetry celebration of Shakespeare with focus on his sonnets and the use of poetry in his plays. Poetry readings by actors Ion Caramitru and Michael Pennington. The following sonnets and extracts were read at...
As part of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s sonnets, 14 sonnets are read by Sir Ian McKellen as drop-ins through the day’s programmes, starting off with the 7am BREAKFAST...
Verdi’s opera relayed from the Festspielhaus, Salzburg in co-operation with the Austrian Broadcasting Company. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
Fiction film. Richard III with William V. Ranous directing himself in the title role.
Film of a modern dress stage production directed by Neil Armfield.
Fiction film of Macbeth containing at least 17 sequences with the focus on the first half of the play. Shot largely in the studio, the film was not well received by the trade papers and its censorship by...
Television sitcom. Ozzie decides to read Hamlet aloud to the family because David is studying the play at school. Before the reading begins a mysterious stranger, Whitfield, appears. With his help, the...
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