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Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the warrior, from classical heroes to more contemporary soldiers. The programme opens with extracts from Henry V, read by and Don...
Radio programme featuring excerpts from William Walton’s musical score for Laurence Olivier’s HENRY V (1944).
Recording of an illustrated online lecture by Cantor Matthew Austerklein. The lecture, hosted by Rabbi Hazzan Marcia Tilchin, is followed by a Q&A session.
Constant Lambert arranges and conducts two performances of the music from Purcell’s ‘opera’ (performed by the BBC Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra) which was first put on stage in 1692.
Radio broadcast. Chris de Souza takes a look at one of Shakespeare’s plays, and plays some of the music it’s inspired over the centuries.
A history of performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, commissioned to celebrate the RSC’s 25th anniversary. Features reminiscences by famous actors who have played there: James Dale, who...
Documentary film recalling the first Elizabethan age through surviving architecture, art, furniture, music and literature. The music, by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is played by the London Sinfonia and sung by...
Television show in which Paul McCartney and John Lennon were joined by a number of artists, each giving their versions of Beatles’ songs. There is a comic tour de force from Peter Sellers, intoning ‘A...
6-part television discussion series in which academic Hugo Dyson talks about Shakespeare to four American graduates studying classical drama at the London Academy of Music and the Dramatic Arts (LAMDA)....
Radio programme commemorating Shakespeare’s birth. Among the variety of items broadcast is music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays and a performance of King Richard II, Act II, Scene i. After the news at...
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