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A series of six radio broadcasts about the origins and peculiarities of the English language and the way it has changed over the centuries from Anglo Saxon to modern slang.This third episode investigates how...
Concluding episode in a three-part docuseries on the life and work of William Shakespeare, combining interviews with drama vignettes. 3. Shakespeare’s life and legacy is threatened when the Gunpowder Plot...
BBC’s arts programme. Presenter Anne McElvoy discusses Germany’s claim on Shakespeare with Rüdiger Goerner, Director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, and Karen Leeder, Professor of...
Documentary. Bosnia-Herzegovina is divided ethnically and religiously; Muslims live on the east side, Catholics on the west side. The US-led Dayton Peace Accord brought peace to Bosnia in 1995, but is no...
Melodrama. During World War II, Krishnendu Mukerjee, a priest, is brought a wounded woman whom he recognises as Rina Brown, an Anglo-Indian and his former lover. In flashback he recalls his college days...
Feature film comedy and a parody of CLEOPATRA (1963). The film spoofs history in general and British attitudes in particular. Noted for it’s gloriously bad puns as in ‘Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got...
Hindi feature film. The story of Violet Stoneham, an ageing Anglo-Indian schoolteacher who lives in a dingy apartment in Calcutta and teaches Shakespeare. Two young lovers walk into her life one Christmas...
A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...
Radio play by Anthony Burgess based on his short story of the same name. The story tells of a meeting between Shakespeare and Cervantes while the King’s Men entertain at an Anglo-Spanish peace conference...
Television drama created by Jim Leonard. Romeo and Juliet set in the adult film industry in Los Angeles. The daughter of a porn industry mogul falls in love with a district attorney, a stauch anti-porn...
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