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Radio broadcast. Forbes-Robertson recites Buckingham’s ‘Farewell Speech’ (Henry VIII) and Hamlet’s ‘Advice to the Players’.
Third in a series of experimental radio transmissions of school broadcasts that at the time were received by about 100 schools. In this week’s episode, the actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson talks about...
Independent Local Radio programme. Actor and director Bryan Forbes is interviewed on the forthcoming publication of his book on the history of British acting. Forbes describes directing actor Peter O’Toole...
Radio broadcast. Dramatic critic James Agate reviews Forbes-Robertson’s and Thorndike’s career on the English stage. The talk is illustrated with extracts from recordings featuring Forbes-Robertson as...
Recording of a presentation by Professor Emma Smith to accompany the publication of her new book, This is Shakespeare. Smith discusses The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The...
Television programme featuring scenes based on Romeo and Juliet, with Jean Forbes-Robertson as Juliet and Michael Redgrave as Romeo.
Television arts series introduced by Sheridan Morley. John Gielgud, Dame Edith Evans, Vanessa Redgrave and Donald Sinden discuss the ways in which acting has changed in the last hundred years. There is an...
Third broadcast in a series offering condensed versions of plays performed at the theatre. Jean Forbes-Robertson as Portia and Frederick Valk as Shylock perform in scenes from the Old Vic production of...
A video recording of the play produced by Falstaff Presents and directed by Beth Milles. Peter Jacobson is Arcite and Rainn Wilson, Palamon.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2004 production of Hamlet. Directed by Michael Boyd with Toby Stephens as Hamlet.
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