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Banquo’s Chair (1959 Television)

Series

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Producer

Alfred Hitchcock; Joan Harrison

Television drama by Francis Cockrell based on Rupert Croft-Cook’s original story. In order to get a murderer to confess, a detective hires a famous Shakespearean actress to play the ghost of the dead man,...

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Antony and Cleopatra (1950 Radio)

Producer

Frank Hauser

Shakespeare’s play, produced and adapted for radio by Frank Hauser. Incorporates passages from North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives. Pamela Brown stars as Cleopatra opposite Godfrey Tearle as Mark...

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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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Lone Star Love, Or, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas (2005 Video)

Director

Michael Bogdanov

Musical version of Shakespeare’s play The Merry Wives of Windsor set in Texas in the 1860s. Conceived and adapted by John L. Haber, music and lyrics by John Herrick. Directed for the stage by Michael...

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Measure for Measure (1951 Radio)

Producer

E. A. Harding

Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play arranged for broadcasting and produced by E. A. Harding. With Laidman Browne as Duke, Stephen Murray as Vincentio and Claire Bloom as Isabella. Singer Alfred Deller...

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Othello Project, The (1995 Multimedia)

Director

Rob Carley

Brief online video extracts from a stage performance of ‘The Othello Project’ by Rod Carley. Carley’s version of Othello (which uses Shakespeare’s lines) is set in Mississippi in 1964 at the height...

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Iain Burnside [20/04/2008] (2008 Radio)

aka: Shakespeare’s Birthday

Series

Iain Burnside

Radio broadcast. To mark Shakespeare’s 444th birthday, pianist and presenter Iain Burnside presents music inspired by Shakespeare and talks to guest Nicholas Hytner, director. The playlist ranges from...

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Impossible Catherine (1919 Film)

Director

John B. O’Brien

Silent feature film. Catherine is the spirited, feminist daughter of a wealthy banker. She meets John Henry at a Yale University dinner and he, having read The Taming of the Shrew, resolves to tame her. He...

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As You Like It (1967 Audio)

Director

Clifford Williams

Live sound recording of Clifford Williams’ 1967 all-male production of As You Like It with Ronald Pickup as Rosalind and Jeremy Brett as Orlando. Anthony Hopkins is Audrey.

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Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble (1943 Radio)

Series

Appointment with Fear

Producer

Val Gielgud; Martyn C. Webster

Eighth episode of a half-hour mystery and suspense radio series, written by John Dickson Carr, and produced by Val Gielgud and Martyn C. Webster.

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