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Radio drama written by Robert Nye and adapted from his own novel. A portrait of Shakespeare seen through the eyes of his wife, Anne Hathaway. Anne gives an account of the week she first visited William in...
Television variety show. The second half of the programme contains a sketch entitled ‘The life and Legend of Matt Macbeth’, by Wild Will Shakespeare, presenting Macbeth as a musical Western. Dick Bentley...
Radio broadcast. Andrew Gurr, Professor of English in the University of Reading, reflects on Shakespeare’s relationship with his wife. Anne Hathaway, in the light of Sonnet 145 which he wrote to her before...
Television advertisement for Bird’s Eye ‘Cod in Mushroom Sauce’. June Whitfield, as Anne Hathaway, affecting a Warwickshire accent worries about Will (Terry-Thomas) who is struggling to find a title...
Radio broadcast. A version of Judith Gick’s stage monologue, written for Anna Barry and first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1981. It puts together historical fact and the internal evidence from...
A new radio production of Venus and Adonis to mark Shakespeare’s 440 years. With Nicholas Boulton as narrator and Anne Wood on the violin.
Radio broadcast. Anne Tyler’s contemporary response to The Taming of the Shrew follows the story of college drop-out Kate Battista, who keeps house for her widowed father and 15-year-old sister Bianca.
Television comedy sketch and music show. In one 4-minute sketch Lulu as Anne Hathaway and Les Dawson as Shakespeare enact a sketch which concludes with them singing ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ from Kiss...
Leaving his wife and children behind in Stratford, William Shakespeare goes to London to promote the Henry VI trilogy and make his fortune.
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...
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