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Series exploring the distinctive history and culture of the English Midlands. Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, argues that the vision of Shakespeare as world...
Six amateur actors from each of the English regions play the Mechanicals and perform with the Royal Shakespeare Company in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Samuel West narrates. London: Tower Theatre from East...
Documentary, filmed over 24 hours, on the celebration of Shakespeare’s anniversary in Stratford-Upon-Avon in 1979.
TV travel series hosted by comedian Susan Calman. In this episode, Susan visits the part of the Midlands known as Shakespeare Country, where she stops at Warwick Castle to try her hand at archery; she then...
News item (mute). Guests attending a party for the first night of Love’s Labour Lost at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford on 3rd July 1956. The play was directed by Peter Hall, his first...
Radio play by Hugh Sykes Davies on Delia Bacon’s publication of The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded (1857), a theory on the authorship of Shakespeare’s writings, which Nathaniel Hawthorne...
Series for schools introduced by Richard Johnson.
Radio drama written and produced by David Lytton imagining the latter days of Shakespeare’s life in Stratford-upon-Avon. With Deryck Guyler as Shakespeare and Angela Baddeley as his wife.
Radio play written by Blair (pseudonym for W. W. Blair-Fish), dramatising Shakespeare’s youth in the Midlands.
Documentary. Actor David Harewood has five days to turn a group of teenagers from his old school, Washwood Heath Technology College, Birmingham into Shakespearean performers capable of appearing on the stage...
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