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Musical short. Set in the office of a music promoter, the boss, his secretary and the typists all dance. Two tap dancers (Tom and Dick) arrive for audition, then an old Broadway actor (McNaughton). He at...
Author and academic Germaine Greer discusses Anne Hathaway and the commonly held beliefs about her and her marriage to William Shakespeare. Chaired by biographer Jonathan Bate and introduced by Maggie...
British B-feature. Julius Caesar enacted in a big business setting. Julian Caesar, chairman of Empire Petroleum, trys to effect a merger, but Cassius, a jealous director plots to overthrow him. A clause in...
Rural documentary series. In this episode Graham Castle, secretary of the Gloucestershire Rural Community Council, presents the Uley Village Players, an amateur Shakespeare company from the county. He...
US comedy sketch show. In one sketch Hamlet becomes a private eye, Private Orb Ham Spade working on the killing of his father assisted by his secretary, Ophelia. Jensen (op cit) notes that it parodies the...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt chooses Sonnet 29 as the piece of Shakespeare that inspires him...
Feature film. Ann, secretary to a theatre critic, is persuaded to alter a poor review of actor Edmond Davey’s performance as Othello at the behest of his actress wife, Barbara. Ann is sacked, then falls in...
Radio programme presented by Farquharson Small on the history of the Old Vic Theatre, its two female managers, Emma Cons (acting manager 1898-1912) and Lilian Baylis (manager 1912-37), and producer-director...
Radio play based on the short story ‘Excursion in Reality’ by Evelyn Waugh (1932), adapted for broadcasting by Olga Klaenforth. Waugh’s satire on the film industry features the visionary studio...
Film director and gay rights activist von Praunheim was given 40 000 Deutsche Mark by the West German public broadcasting station WDR to produce a television opera. Von Praunheim’s operatic take on Macbeth...
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