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A masterclass on speaking and performing Shakespeare introduced by Trevor Nunn and led by John Barton who works with Royal Shakespeare Company actors Alan Howard, Michael Pennington, David Suchet, Ian...
Television anthology arts series. This two-part edition presents a masterclass in classic drama led by RSC directors Trevor Nunn, John Barton and Terry Hands. Actors from the RSC rehearse and discuss the...
Radio broadcast. The Tempest adapted and produced by Ian Cotterell with Paul Scofield as Prospero and Patrick Stewart as Caliban. With music composed by David Cain, and played by Mike Westbrook, Clive Heath,...
Subtitled ‘An enquiry into the sources of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest’, the radio play by J.I. M. Stewart (who also wrote under the pseudonym Michael Innes) focuses on a dispute between Peterkin,...
In four sections, each consisting of an interview/workshop: Part 1: A survey of the stage history of Shylock, with particular reference to the changing interpretations of the role. With Dr Tom Matheson of...
Live sound recording of Robin Phillips’ 1970 production of The Gentlemen of Verona for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Peter Egan is Valentine and Ian Richardson is Proteus.
Radio broadcast. Patrick Stewart talks about finally having the opportunity to play the title role in Macbeth, some 50 years after he first memorised the play’s great speeches, and chronicles the...
Following THE ESSENTIAL SHAKESPEARE LIVE the two discs feature scenes taken from RSC productions in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, recorded by the British Library and the RSC over almost half a century. As...
Television documentary. Actors speak about about the challenge of performing Shakespeare. Their comments are illuminating - Ian McKellen believes his first thirty years of Shakespearean acting to have been...
Television documentary series tracing the history and progress of Western civilisation. Discussing the theme of progress and communication, Kenneth Clark speaks of the Reformation, the Germany of Dürer and...