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John Gielgud reads a selection of Shakespeare’s sonnets. In a second programme, broadcast 26 April at the same time, John Neville read from the sonnets. Neville’s reading is not held by the BBC.
Radio broadcast. John Neville reads from Shakespeare’s sonnets.
A thirteen-part television series, presented by Richard Ouzounian, on the history of the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Episode 8 follows artistic director John Neville who turned around the...
Radio broadcast: An item (2 mins) in the programme. John Neville talks to an audience about West African audiences’ reactions to Shakespeare’s plays, having recently completed a ten week tour of West...
Educational videotape. Extracts from three key scenes from King Lear examined to explore Lear’s descent into madness. The scenes are: I iii ‘How now, what art thou?'; I v ‘If a man’s brains...'; II...
Item from MONITOR, the television arts documentary series. A report on the new theatre built in Nottingham including the opening by Lord Snowdon. Features rehearsal footage of Tyrone Guthrie’s production...
HAMLET (SOLO) chronicles the six-year journey of actor Raoul Bhaneja as he mounts a one-man version of Hamlet directed by Robert Ross Parker. It provides an in-depth look at a maverick spirit driven to...
Video recording of John Neville’s staging of The Boys from Syracuse for the 1986 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival.
Television documentary. An impressive line-up of actors and actresses relate the history of the Old Vic theatre company including Tyrone Guthrie, Tommy Steele, Ninette de Valois and John Neville. There is...
Radio broadcast. As part of a series of 26 weekly programmes "designed as an anthology of the best-known and best-loved speeches and scenes" from Shakespeare’s better known plays, this episode (10)...