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Television documentary series tracing the history and progress of Western civilisation. Discussing the theme of progress and communication, Kenneth Clark speaks of the Reformation, the Germany of Dürer and...
Author and screen writer William Boyd in conversation with Shakespeare scholar Katherine Duncan-Jones. Boyd talks about his screenplay for A WASTE OF SHAME, a television drama about the background to...
Author and academic Germaine Greer discusses Anne Hathaway and the commonly held beliefs about her and her marriage to William Shakespeare. Chaired by biographer Jonathan Bate and introduced by Maggie...
A musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Written by D. F. Aitken, with music by William Trethowan. Adapted for radio by Henrik Ege. The BBC Variety Orchestra is conducted by Louis Levy....
A musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Written by D. F. Aitken, with music by Harry Jacobson and Kenneth Leslie-Smith. Lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and James Dyrenforth. Adapted for radio by...
Feature film based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Prospero is given 24 books to lessen the pain of his exile on a barren island. Greenaway interprets The Tempest as a mind reviewing its entire contents, and...
Television production of Hamlet, heavily abridged. Directed by Peter Brook with Paul Scofield as Hamlet. The Phoenix Theatre, London stage production went out live from a studio; it was thought that such a...