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Special radio programme broadcast in honour of actress Ellen Terry’s 80th birthday. Introductory remarks are by James Agate. The programme is made up of performances of extracts from plays by Shakespeare...
Final Star Trek feature film featuring the cast of the original science fiction series. In this episode the aging crew must stop a plot to prevent a peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the United...
Feature film derived from the stage rock musical Hair about a group of hippies whose beliefs run counter to the traditional American 1960s morality. Two songs make reference to Shakespeare’s plays - What a...
Radio broadcast with the theme of Shakespeare in opera. Up-and-coming stars give their annual concert from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Presented by Stephanie Hughes in conversation with opera...
Radio broadcast. Dramatic critic James Agate reviews Matheson Lang’s career on the English stage. The talk is illustrated with extracts from gramophone records featuring Lang as Othello in Act V ii.
Television presentation of the Prospect Theatre Company’s production of the play. A thoughtful and successful attempt to transfer a popular stage production to the televison screen. Ian McKellen gives a...
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 3 - David Walliams performs ‘Honour pricks me on, but how if honour...
Feature film. Black comedy about two down-on-their-luck actors holidaying in the Lake District in 1969. Richard Griffiths, as Withnail’s gay uncle, frequently quotes from Hamlet, and the film ends...
Radio broadcast. Dramatic critic James Agate reviews comedy actress Madge Kendal’s career on the English stage from 1854 -1911. The talk is illustrated with recorded extracts featuring Kendal as Rosalind...
Feature film. An English troupe of actors tour post-Raj India staging performances of Shakespeare to dwindling audiences as British dominance of, and interest in, British culture fades. The film is an ironic...
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