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Reginald Watters discusses the play. The recording is designed to stimulate both group discussion and individual research, to suggest ways of organising material, and to encourage personal response to the text.
A lecture given by A.L. Rowse at the 1983 Cheltenham Literary Festival. Professor Rowse lectures on historical writing as a branch of literature using Shakespeare’s sonnets, Love’s Labour’s Lost and...
Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, produced and directed by David Spenser. With Nigel Hawthorne, Diana Quick and Maureen O’Brien. The music is specially composed by Terence Allbright and performed...
Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, produced and directed in stereo by Richard Wortley. With Ian Saynor and Harriet Walter in the title roles and Bill Nighy as Mercutio. Music composed by Ilona Sekacz.
An adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel by Ken Taylor. In one scene (Chapter 34 in the book) Henry Crawford impresses Fanny Price by his ability to read aloud from Shakespeare. Henry reads from Henry VIII...
Quiz show presented by Magnus Magnusson. The contestants are Christopher Hughes (British steam locomotives), Margaret Peat (life of Richard III), Alex Yates (slavery and the slave trade) and Kathryn Tyson...
John Drummond introduces Rudolf Nureyev’s production of Romeo and Juliet from the Palazzo dello Sport, Milan. The ballet premiered in London in 1977 and was staged at La Scala, Milan in 1980. Nureyev and...
The director Charles Marowitz gives his theories and opinions about directing Shakespeare, and suggests what might have happened if Shakespeare had directed his own plays.
Feature film about a hairdresser (Walters) who, against the wishes of her family, enrols on a literature course at the Open University. Her tutor (Caine) is a disillusioned, heavy drinking middle-aged man...
Televised version of the one-man stage show on the life of Edmund Kean written by Raymond Fitzsimmons and performed by Ben Kingsley. Directed by Alison Sutcliffe for stage and for television by Michael...
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