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Animation. Part of the animated series starring Colonel Heeza Liar, a teller of tall tales. The series was shown as part of Bray’s Paramount Pictorial screen magazine. In this edition the Colonel is...
Feature film. King Shahdov (Chaplin) is a deposed monarch exiled in New York without money. He becomes involved with Ann Kay (Addams) who hosts a television show, and soon becomes a celebrity. Befriending a...
Radio programme. Together with guests Professor George Steiner and Professor Catherine Belsey, presenter Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the genre of tragedy and examines whether we (still) have a...
The story of Romeo and Juliet retold in Notting Hill Gate, London, against a backdrop of murder, drugs, sex and rock ‘n’ roll.
Radio series in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced modern times. This episode looks at Christopher Marlowe. It asks if he was assassinated by the...
Comedy series in which a play is performed live for a studio audience in the ‘Play of the Week’ strand. And every time it goes disastrously wrong. This week Cornley Drama Society stages a little-known...
Comedy drama series about extras in film, television and theatre. Andy and Maggie are working on a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest alongside Patrick Stewart, the episode opening with Stewart...
US sitcom chronicling daily life in a small Chicago diner, starring Studs Terkel in the role of the proprietor and Beverly Younger as the waitress, Grace. In this episode a famous actor is supposed to visit...
Radio drama. Danny Sapani is Leontes and Eve Best plays Hermione.
Fiction short. William Shakespeare wakes up from a strange dream during which he came up with the phrase ‘to be or not to be’. However, on awakening he cannot remember the phrase and suffers from...
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