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This collection brings together many of Alan Bennett’s previously unreleased BBC productions dating from 1972 through to 1994. It includes his first television play, ‘A Day Out’; autobiographical...
Live audio recording of David Hare’s 1987 production of King Lear with Anthony Hopkins as Lear.
A sound recording of Michael Benthall’s 1954 Old Vic production with Robert Helpmann as Oberon and Moira Shearer as Titania. Mendelssohn’s incidental music is played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra...
Two-part production of Shakespeare’s play, with Martin Jarvis as Orlando and Oliver, Sarah Badel as Rosalind.
A live sound recording of Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Alan Howard as Theseus/Oberon and Sara Kestelman as Hippolyta/Titania.
Live sound recording of Peter Hall’s 1975 staging of Hamlet with Albert Finney in the title role. Original music by Harrison Birtwistle.
Television presentation of the Royal Shakespeare’s Company’s 1972 stage production directed for the theatre by Trevor Nunn. Shot almost entirely in close-up, and scaled down for the small screen, the...
1964 television broadcast of the English/Danish co-production of the play which was filmed at Kronsberg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark. Christopher Plummer is Hamlet with a supporting cast that includes Michael...
Television anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. Programme on the staging of King Lear around a rehearsal in the National Theatre of David Hare’s production with Anthony Hopkins in the title...
Live sound recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1972 production of Coriolanus directed by Trevor Nunn with co-direction from Buzz Goodbody and Euan Smith. Nicol Williamson is Coriolanus.