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Series on the British monarchy written and presented by David Starkey. This episode looks at kings from Richard II to Henry VI that were the subject of Shakespeare’s plays. Starkey examines their reigns...
Factual. Jon Snow and Krishnan Guru-Murthy present live coverage of the return of the remains of King Richard III to Leicester. Jon Snow is joined in the studio by Dr Helen Castor (historian), Philippa...
Television production of the play live from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Directed for stage by John Dove and for television by Janet Fraser Cook. Presented by Andrew Marr and with comment from historian...
Radio adaptation of the play produced and directed by Richard Wortley. With John Hurt in the title role and David Suchet as Bolingbroke. Music composed by Ilona Sekacz.
1: Dr David Starkey examines the reign of Henry VIII and give his interpretation of the factors influencing the behaviour of the king and his administration. 2: Reveals that Queen Victoria was far from being...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1996 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Directed by David Thacker with Benjamin Whitrow as Falstaff.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 production of Macbeth. Directed by Adrian Noble with Derek Jacobi and Cheryl Campbell as the Macbeths.
Feature film version of the play. ‘Building on Olivier’s extraordinary stage creation, the film asks less what the cinema can do for the theatre (as with HENRY V and HAMLET) than what the theatre can...
What makes this ‘gloriously watchable, now as then, is Oliver’s effortlessly virtuosic performance as Richard: imperious, ironic, bruttish, sometimes hysterical and never less than smirkingly...
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