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Early evening chat/variety show with TV presenter Paul Coia on a day out at Totethorpe Hall, Lincolnshire, where the Stamford Shakespeare players perform in an open-air theatre. A look behind the scenes...
Arts magazine programme. Andrew Graham-Dixon interviews John Lydon, former frontman (Johnny Rotten) of the Sex Pistols. Lydon talks about his love of Shakespeare and Mozart in a c5min extract.
Special edition of the arts show. A report on Deborah Warner’s difficulties in staging a German-language production of Coriolanus for the Salzburg Festival in 1993. Peter Stein (the festival’s director)...
Anthology drama series. The show, hosted by Alfred Drake, presented scenes, not full texts, and occasionally used a variety show format as in this episode. Includes Laurence Olivier giving a reading from...
Topical arts magazine series. Includes an item on the 2006 ‘Searching for Shakespeare’ exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London which examined the available portraiture and biographical...
British Pathe newsfilm item. Preparations for, and scenes from, a production of Macbeth at the Minack Cliff Theatre, an open-air theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall which opened in 1932. Includes shots of the...
Arts and current affairs review show presented by Kirsty Wark. In this special edition live from the Edinburgh Festival a report (c 8 mins) on Asian Shakespeare where Wu Hsing-Kuo performs a one-man version...
Television comedy impressionist series originating on radio. Includes a sketch in which Trisha (the host of the studio participation show TRISHA) interviews a yobbish and inarticulate Hamlet (Culshaw in...
Television arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. Ian McKellen talks to Melvyn Bragg about his life and career. This is McKellen’s fourth visit to the South Bank Show and this programme includes extracts...
American sitcom. Derek Jacobi guest stars as an over-the-hill actor (Jackson Headley) whose career is now typecast playing Tobor (robot spelt backwards), an android character in a television series ‘Space...