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News item from Meridian news presented by Sarah Shepheard. A pub in Swanmore, Hampshire, is hosting a Shakespeare night on the karaoke. The two-minute item includes shots of a woman reading on the karaoke,...
Radio documentary on the architect Elisabeth Scott who designed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Scott beat more than 70 contenders for the commision at a time when women her age didn’t have the vote....
Radio documentary. Twice a week for almost ten years 61-year-old actor Bob Smith (author of the memoir Hamlet’s Dresser) has travelled to New York City from his home in Connecticut to read Shakespeare with...
Comedy thriller set in a small theatrical company. To director Roberto the events bring back childhood memories when he witnessed a murder in the same theatre. However, Roberto’s eccentric elderly aunt has...
American satirical drama series by Jesse Armstrong that alludes to many of Shakespeare’s plays and the main premise of which (a patriarch at war with his own children over their inheritance) was directly...
In this contemporary re-working of King Lear a home for the elderly is the domain of the titular monarch. Having obtained the Power of Attorney to manage his affairs, Lear’s daughters are ecstatic and have...
In ancient Britain, the elderly King Lear plans for the future of his estate by putting his three daughters to the test. By indulging his vanity, the King delivers a terrible injustice that wrecks havoc on...
Feature film. An elderly professor is infatuated by an attractive young music-hall singer, and abandons his teaching career to go away with her and her troupe. In one scene Professor Rath uses the line ‘to...
Feature film post-war western, based on a story by W.R. Burnett and with parallels to The Tempest. Tells the story of an outlaw leader, Stretch (Peck), who takes refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only...
Feature film comedy drama, based on Zeffirelli’s autobiography, concerning a group of elderly expatriate English women living in Florence in 1934. One of the group (Mary), who are known as the...
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