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Six-disc set of eleven television dramas from the BBC featuring Helen Mirren. Included are A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (13 December 1981) and CYMBELINE (10 July 1983) from the BBC Television Shakespeare...
The BBC has announced that it is to broadcast 'epic film versions' of Richard II, Henry IV parts I and II, and Henry V as part of a season of Shakespeare's history plays to be produced by Oscar-winning...
The Arden Shakespeare The BUFVC Shakespeare project used The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works as its standard reference text. BBC Active Shakespeare Collection The BBC Television Shakespeare series is...
Television comedy sketch show. Includes a two-minute sketch, written in Shakespearean English, which satirises the BBC television soap opera COMPACT about magazine publishers.
Television discussion. Following the television production THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (tx BBC 20 April 1952) Margaret Johnston (Kate in the production), Ivor Brown (theatre critic for The Observer), George More...
Barry Took discusses the play to complement its transmission in the ‘BBC Television Shakespeare’ series. The aim of the series of radio talks was to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of...
Radio arts series. Michael Billington takes a critical look at Shakespeare in performance. This weekend BBC Television begins an ambitious season which will present productions of every play in the...
Russell Davies discusses the play to complement its transmission in the ‘BBC Television Shakespeare’ series. The aim of the series of radio talks was to develop a greater understanding and appreciation...
Television showbusiness magazine series. The sketch ‘An Eternity of Kings’ formed part of the programme and was a spoof on the BBC series An Age of Kings.
A personal view of the play presented by Dennis Potter. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by...