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Television comedy sketch series written by Victoria Wood. In the two-minute skit ‘Giving Notes’ Julie Walters, as director Alma, gives notes from the stage to an unseen group of amateur actors - ‘But I...
Television arts documentary series. A profile of Nigel Hawthorne as he prepares to play the title role in King Lear, directed by Ninagawa, for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The programme follows him through...
Educational series. One in a twelve-part series of films made by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (now TV Ontario). The aim was to relate ‘Shakespeare’s timeless ideas and understanding...
BBC radio comedy series. In a sketch within this episode June Whitfield (Hamlet), Jimmy Edwards (Gertrude) and Alma Cogan (Ophelia) stage Hamlet as a pantomime. Sections of the dialogue run thus: June: Now,...
Feature film. Musical comedy with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. An aspiring chorus girl finds herself in a jam when a gangster, who is backing the show she is appearing in, is found dead in her...
British television comedy series. This episode includes the sketch ‘The Man Who Speaks in Anagrams’. Part of the dialogue is as follows: Palin: And I believe you’re working on an anagram version of...
Radio series about private detective Sam Spade, a character created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Maltese Falcon. A psychiatrist named Doctor Denoff comes to Spade (Howard Duff) when a blackmailer...
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