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Verdi’s opera in a production by Graham Vick and directed for television by Humphrey Burton. The Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra are conducted by Bernard Haitink. Introduced for television by James...
Stage play by William Poel performed by the Birmingham Repertory Players under Bernard Hepton, adapted and produced for broadcasting by Peter Dews. Loosely related to the Quarto version of Hamlet it stars...
Radio adaptation of the play produced by Val Gielgud. Starring Clifford Evans as Antony, Fay Compton as Cleopatra and Bernard Evans as Enobarbus. With music composed by Julius Harrison. Duncan Carse acts as...
Anthology arts series. In the 17th century Troilus and Cressida was censored and in the 18th century Tate gave King Lear a happy ending. The programme debates the line between interpretation and vandalism.
Radio broadcast of G.B. Shaw’s rewriting of Act V of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (Cymbeline Refinished, 1937). Produced by Wilfrid Grantham. Richard Hutton narrates. With music composed and conducted by...
The fifth episode of a nine-part BBC television series comprising three of Shakespeare’s Roman plays - Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. This episode covers Act II-IV of Julius Caesar.
Bernard Kops radio play distills elements freely adapted from Shakespeare’s tragedy into ‘A Sad Comedy with some Songs’ (subtitle). Kop’s one-act play is set in the 1950s lower-middle-class Jewish...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced by Raymond Raikes. With Geraldine McEwan as Rosaline and Tony Britton as Berowne. Michael Spice narrates. The riddle song by Gerald Finzi was originally...
Relayed from the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, the Stratford Festival Company performs B. Iden Payne’s production of As You Like It. The adaptation for broadcasting is arranged by Owen...
Sound recording. Professor Stanley Wells delivers The Shakespeare Lecture at the 1987 Cheltenham Literature Festival. Wells discusses Shakespeare’s plays as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb, Mary Seymour,...
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