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Video recording of Robin Phillips’ 1980 production of Much Ado About Nothing for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Maggie Smith is Beatrice and Brian Bedford is Benedick.
Radio adaptation of Barrie Rutter’s 2009 Northern Broadsides company production of the play at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds with Lenny Henry taking the title role.
Abbreviated version of The Winter’s Tale. William Shakespeare reads the play to some friends. The story is largely the plot of the play but Autolycus is omitted and there is no pursuit of a bear. McKernan...
Radio transmission of Verdi’s ‘Lyrical comedy in three acts’ relayed from Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London. With Arnold Matters as Falstaff. The Sadler’s Wells Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by...
Video recording of Brian Bedford’s 1980 production of Titus Andronicus for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with William Hutt in the title role.
Travelogue. English life in Autumn, Winter and Spring. Includes sequences from the Old Vic production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with comedian Frankie Howerd as Bottom at the play rehearsal and Titania...
Variety show from the ABC Theatre, Blackpool,introduced by Tony Hancock. This episode includes a ca. 5 min. sketch in which Tony Hancock, wearing costume and wig, performs a Shakespearean stand-up routine,...
As part of the Saturday morning talk show, presenter Jonathan Ross interviews David Tennant (best known as the latest incarnation of Doctor Who on British television) about his acting career and playing the...
Recording of the 2019 production, a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s classic love story by director and choreographer Matthew Bourne, featuring new orchestrations by Terry Davies of the Prokofiev score...
Item in radio revue programme. Sandwiched between an interview with Col. Bourne, survivor of Rorke’s Drift and A. Frisbee, an old hansom cabbie, the programme features a rehearsal of As You Like It from...
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