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Anthology arts series hosted by Alistair Cooke. This episodes includes a 5 minute item showing a rehearsal for King Lear with director Peter Brook. composer Virgil Thomson and Natasha Parry as Cordelia. The...
Radio broadcast. Gounod’s opera is performed by The Wireless Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Percy Pitt, with Parry Jones and Miriam Licette in the leading parts.
Was William Shakespeare a fraud and was the real ‘bard’ a Welshman from Conway - John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln.
Radio broadcast. Berlioz’s dramatic symphony performed in its entirety by the BBC Orchestra and Wireless Chorus, conducted by Oskar Fried.
Feature film musical comedy inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The plot concerns the romance between Viennese official Leitner (Hörbiger) and vaudeville headliner Theresa Zalenka...
Radio programme comprised of songs from or inspired by Shakespeare’s plays and a performance of a scene from Romeo and Juliet. From 21:00-21:10 Gilbert Bailey (baritone) sings songs from Twelfth Night:"O...
Documentary film. Peter Brook created the International Centre of Theatre Research in Paris in 1970. In the autumn of 1973, the Centre conducted a five-week work period at the Brooklyn Academy of Music,...
Radio programme dedicated to Shakespeare’s works. The broadcast, comprised of music and scenes from Shakespeare’s plays, is thematically grouped into a section on ‘Tragedy’ and a section of...
Two scenes from The Tempest with music by Elizabeth Poston conducted by John Russell. An experiment in stereo broadcasting; the programme was transmitted on Network 3 wavelengths (medium wave and VHF) (left)...
Video recording by Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) of Peter Brook’s production of Hamlet with Adrian Lester in the title role. Adapted by Brook for eight actors and one musician.
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