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Television documentary. Actors speak about about the challenge of performing Shakespeare. Their comments are illuminating - Ian McKellen believes his first thirty years of Shakespearean acting to have been...
Radio programme. Actor Julian Rhind-Tutt explores how actors archive the sounds of their own voices. How does an actor live with the voice in his head and the voice he sounds like? Includes extracts from...
The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Haydn...
Radio drama by Martyn Wade. Based on a true story, William Ireland was an unhappy child, born in the 18th century, who wanted to impress his brutal father. He wrote, and then claimed to have discovered,...
Television adaptation, in three episodes, of Jonathan Coe’s novel. Tells the story of a group of Birmingham teenagers and their families in the 1970s, a time of class conflict, racial tension and...
Bill Nighy stars as the actor-cum-amateur sleuth in the four-part detective drama series adapted by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett. Louche actor Charles Paris has managed to secure a role in a...
A National Theatre production staged at the Cottesloe Theatre in 1995 and recorded with a single fixed camera. Fiona Shaw plays King Richard II; Deborah Warner directs.
Adapted from Alan Bennett’s stage play ‘The Madness of George III’, the film focuses on King George’s deteriorating mental condition that opens the door for court intrigue and the usurping of the...
Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing adapted for radio by Sally Avens, with David Tennant as Benedick and Samantha Spiro as Beatrice. Introduced by Richard Eyre. Original music composed and...
A production, re-staged for television, of the National Theatre’s 1995 production of Richard II directed by Deborah Warner with Fiona Shaw in the title role.
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