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Shakespeare (2018 Television)

Series

Marrying Mum and Dad

Director

Jonathon Hancock

Producer

Jonathon Hancock

Reality show in which children are asked to organise their parents’ wedding. The series has been running since 2012. In this episode Bella (and her best friend Chloe) from Preston in Lancashire organises a...

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Julius Caesar (1955 Television)

Series

Studio One Summer Theatre

Director

Daniel Petrie

Anthology drama series. A production of Julius Caesar adapted by Leo Penn. Theodore Bikel is Caesar and Alfred Ryder plays Mark Antony. Introduced by John Cannon.

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Hamlet (1947 Television)

Director

George More O’Ferrall

Producer

George More O’Ferrall; Basil Adams

Ambitious two-part televised adaptation of the play produced by George More O’Ferrall, with John Byron as Hamlet.

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King Henry the Fifth (1924 Radio)

aka: Henry V Shakespeare Night

Director

A. Corbett-Smith

Two-hour radio adaptation of the play, arranged and directed by A. Corbett-Smith. Cyril Estcourt performs the title role and Haidee Gunn speaks the parts of both Katharine of France and the Chorus. Other...

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London Calling - 1600 (1936)

Producer

Mary Hope Allen

Radio broadcast. Written and arranged in Elizabethan English by Herbert Farjeon, Radio Times announces this programme as being an "impression - a conjecture - a shot in the dark at what listeners might have...

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Troilus and Cressida (1999 Video)

Director

Michael Boyd

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 touring production of Troilus and Cressida. Directed by Michael Boyd with William Houston as Troilus and Jayne...

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Bunch of Amateurs, A (2008 Film)

Director

Andy Cadiff

Producer

David Parfitt

Feature film comedy. Ageing Hollywood star (Burt Reynolds) signs up to play the title role in King Lear in Britain to revive his flagging career. He believes the role is part of a Royal Shakespeare Company...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1934 Radio)

Producer

Val Gielgud

Shakespeare’s comedy adapted for radio by Marianne Helweg with Mendelssohn’s music. Margaret Rawlings performs as Oberon, Fay Compton is Titania, Ralph Richardson plays Bottom. Produced by Val Gielgud.

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Battle for Music (1943)

Director

Donald Taylor; Len Lye; Ralph Keene; Ralph Bond; John Banting; Dylan Thomas; Charles de Latour

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 186 minutes), £14.99

Dramatised documentary about the trials of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II. The year is 1939. Following the liquidation of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the players form a new...

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Dickens Before Sound (2006)

Subject

Film Studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 171 minutes), £12.99

This collection of films, the majority of which are previously unreleased, shows how early cinema storytelling developed, as practitioners of this new art struggled to transform a tale from page to screen....

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