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Last part of 6 one-hour episodes in which three plays (Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, Henry V) are joined together in Dickon Reed’s radio adaptation which follows the fortunes of Prince Hal. With music by...
A personal view of the play presented by Michael Wood. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by stressing...
Television schools programme. Redvers Kyle introduces works which have been influenced by, or incorporate the theme of, Romeo and Juliet. In Part 1 he discusses Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.
A personal view of the play presented by George Melly. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by stressing...
Excerpts of the play, taken from Anthony Quayle’s well-received Stratford production (1951), were shown as part of the BBC’s For the Children slot. The broadcast was never recorded, but according to...
Audio podcast. Tim McIntosh and Heidy White discuss the insurrectionist theme of the play.
US late-night, sketch/satirical show conceived by and starring Demetri Martin. Each episode has a theme. In this sketch (c4 mins) William Shakespeare, Galileo and Benjamin Franklin try to woo a waitress in a...
Radio broadcast. Provost Erskine Hill reads passages from King Lear (IV vii), Julius Caesar (III ii), Twelfth Night (IV ii), Henry IV, Part 1 (II iv) at the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse.
Podcast with Graham Holderness, Alison Findlay and Michael Hattaway. Graham Holderness begins with discussing how Shakespeare’s first tetralogy becomes the trilogy of the Wars of the Roses and how this...
Peter Hollindale, University of York, and Gareth Lloyd Evans, University of Birmingham ask whether this play enacts ‘the education of a prince’. Prince Hal is considered in relation to Falstaff and...