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Variety show. In one episode (transmission date not known) June Whitfield appears in a sketch as a roller-skating Lady Macbeth.
Propaganda short. Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man’s suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography. When the suit is being cut up to make clothes for the...
Television comedy show hosted by Arthur Askey. This edition includes a running gag where Askey wants to prove himself a serious actor and quotes the ‘quality of mercy’ speech from The Merchant of Venice...
A film depicting a scene from Verdi’s Otello, using the experimental synchronisation process known as the Biophon developed in 1903 by Oskar Messter. Ball (op cit, p. 33) describes how a camera turned...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode poet Wendy Cope chooses Sonnet 29 as the piece of Shakespeare that inspired her most. Performed...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt chooses Sonnet 29 as the piece of Shakespeare that inspires him...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby chooses a speech from Cymbeline as the piece of Shakespeare that...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode broadcaster Gyles Brandreth chooses a speech from King Lear (Act 5 Scene 3) as the piece of...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode novelist Hilary Mantel choses Mark Anthony’s speech from Julius Caesar (Act 3 Sc 1) which was...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode broadcaster Andrew Marr chooses a speech from King Lear (Act 5 Scene 3) as the piece of...
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