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Documentary compilation. A commemoration of the coronation of King George VI, released during coronation week. It relates the story of the British Empire from 1895 to George’s proclamation as king....
Three-part radio series presented by Jonathan Bate. In the first episode Bate shows how Elizabethans under Queen Elizabeth presided over a flowering of literature and maps and ‘discovered England’. Bate...
60-Second Shakespeare is a BBC project to encourage UK students to create their own 60-second interpretations of Shakespeare using audio, video, animation and IT skills. In this production students deliver...
Television anthology arts series. This two-part edition presents a masterclass in classic drama led by RSC directors Trevor Nunn, John Barton and Terry Hands. Actors from the RSC rehearse and discuss the...
Series on literature presented by Robert Robinson. This episode includes an item in which Robinson introduces Judith Cook’s book Women in Shakespeare. An interview with historian and literary scholar A.L....
Feature film version of the novel by Baroness Orczy set in the French Revolution. At the end of the film, the Scarlet Pimpernel, when he encounters his arch-rival Blakeney, quotes part of John of Gaunt’s...
Feature film. Gilbert Valence (Piccoli) is an aging actor who is in the prime of his career, enjoying prominent roles in both theatre and film. During a performance of Ionesco’s Exit the King , with...
Four scenes from the Her Majesty’s Theatre production of King John, one of which survives. The descriptions quoted are from the copyright records in The National Archives: THE BATTLEFIELD NEAR ANGIERS -...
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