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Celebrity Shakespeare devotees join members of the public to recite some of Shakespeare’s best-known and best-loved speeches and sonnets. With contributions from comedian Rory Bremner, chef and...
Musical short. Set in the office of a music promoter, the boss, his secretary and the typists all dance. Two tap dancers (Tom and Dick) arrive for audition, then an old Broadway actor (McNaughton). He at...
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...
British B-feature. Julius Caesar enacted in a big business setting. Julian Caesar, chairman of Empire Petroleum, trys to effect a merger, but Cassius, a jealous director plots to overthrow him. A clause in...
Radio broadcast. Two scenes from Hamlet with Ralph Richardson as Hamlet, Judi Dench as Ophelia, Mary Wimbush as Gertrude and Rolf Lefebvre as Polonius.
Rural documentary series. In this episode Graham Castle, secretary of the Gloucestershire Rural Community Council, presents the Uley Village Players, an amateur Shakespeare company from the county. He...
US comedy sketch show. In one sketch Hamlet becomes a private eye, Private Orb Ham Spade working on the killing of his father assisted by his secretary, Ophelia. Jensen (op cit) notes that it parodies the...
A series of nine weekly radio talks in which eminent politicians, poets and thespians give their personal reactions to Shakespeare. Among these are Sir Learie Constantine, West Indies cricketer and...
Playwright John Guare discusses his adaptations of material by Shakespeare, including the 1971 musical version of The Two Gentlemen of Verona for which Guare wrote the lyrics and libretto. In addition to a...
Radio broadcast. Seventh in a series of 26 weekly programmes "designed as an anthology of the best-known and best-loved speeches and scenes" from Shakespeare’s better known plays. This episode showcases...
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