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This Earth, This Realm, This England (2002 Television)

Series

Adventure of English 500ad-2000, The

Director

Robert Bee

Producer

Robert Bee

Eight-part television series on the history of the English language, written and presented by Melvyn Bragg. Episode 4 discusses some of the greatest English texts, including the first English dictionary and...

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Christopher Marlowe (2005 Radio)

Series

In Our Time

Producer

Charlie Taylor

Radio series in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced modern times. This episode looks at Christopher Marlowe. It asks if he was assassinated by the...

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Vanessa Redgrave (1994 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Jack Bond

Producer

Tony Cash

Television arts documentary series. Profile and interview with Vanessa Redgrave. Vanessa Redgrave talks to Melvyn Bragg about her father Michael Redgrave and her mother, Rachel Kempson. She speaks of her...

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Roman Polanski (1980 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Andrew Snell

Television anthology arts series. Melvyn Bragg interviews director Roman Polanski about his film-making. Polanski says that he believes Laurence Olivier to be a director of genius and admits to having seen...

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Shakespeare’s Life (2001 Multimedia, Radio)

Series

In Our Time

Producer

Charlie Taylor

Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones, Professor John Sutherland and textual scholar Grace Ioppolo examine what we do know about the life of William Shakespeare. How was...

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King Lear (2008 Multimedia, Radio)

aka: Lear

Series

In Our Time

Producer

James Cook

Radio broadcast. In this episode of the programme on the history of ideas, host Melvyn Bragg discusses Shakespeare’s King Lear with guests Jonathan Bate, Catherine Belsey and Katherine Duncan-Jones. Issues...

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South Bank Show, The [06/01/1980] (1980 Television)

aka: Hamlet Wolfe Stalks American Culture

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Bob Bee; Geoff Dunlop

Anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. In the second part of the programme (c25mins) Jonathan Pryce and director Richard Eyre talk about the staging of Hamlet at London’s Royal Court Theatre,...

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Shakespeare (2000 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Christopher Walker

Producer

Christopher Walker

Television arts documentary series presented by Melvyn Bragg. The episode includes interviews with Harold Bloom on why Shakespeare invented human nature, Kenneth Branagh on romantic love and his new film...

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Royal Shakespeare Company, The (2009 Video)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Naomi Wright

Producer

Jonathan Levi

Anthology arts series. In this final edition of The South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg goes behind the scenes at the Royal Shakespeare Company as it embarks on an ambitious programme of work inspired by...

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Judi Dench (2010 Television)

Series

South Bank Show Revisited, The

Director

Archie Powell

Producer

Archie Powell

Documentary. Melvyn Bragg interviews Judi Dench at the Rose Theatre, Kingston where she is appearing as Titania in Peter Hall’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are no extracts from the...

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