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Combined book and audio CD. Includes a speech from Edwin Booth from 1890, and a 1944 recording of Paul Robeson delivering Othello’s address to the senate. There are performances by Paul Scofield, F. Scott...
Live sound recording of Peter Hall’s 1968 production of Macbeth with Paul Scofield and Vivien Merchant as the Macbeths.
Live audio recording of Peter Brook’s production of King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Paul Scofield in the title role.
Live sound recording of Bill Bryden’s 1982 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Paul Scofield as Oberon and Susan Fleetwood as Titania.
The relentlessly cold and unemotional interpretation was heavily influenced by the essay, ‘King Lear or Endgame’, in which the Polish poet/critic/academic Jan Kott argued that Lear should be interpreted...
Television current affairs series. Includes an item (c 9min) in which Fran Morrison reports on London’s National Theatre production of Measure for Measure, directed by Michael Rudman, which is set in the...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted for radio by Clemence Dane (pseudonym for English novelist Winifred Ashton) and produced by Peter Watts and Audrey Cameron. The all-star cast includes Sybil...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the challenges and consolations of old age. An extract from Cymbeline ('Fear no more’) are read by actors Barbara Jefford and...
Radio broadcast. Series in which listeners recall a moment from the Third Programme or Radio 3 that had a lasting significance for them. In this episode Jeffrey Archer remembers the Third Programme’s...
Scenes from Shakespeare read by a variety of actors extracted from earlier recordings of full performances made for HarperCollins. Tracks include: The Merchant of Venice (IV i), Romeo and Juliet (II ii),...