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Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 1: Faced with parental disapproval of the boy of her choice young Juliet turns to the internet and agony art Veronica.
Fiction short. A version of Hamlet.
Documentary film recalling the first Elizabethan age through surviving architecture, art, furniture, music and literature. The music, by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is played by the London Sinfonia and sung by...
Documentary film about contemporary British art and culture. Includes a brief scene from Peter Hall’s production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company in which David Warner delivers a soliloquy.
Radio broadcast. The grand finale when actors and musicians come together in a live performance celebrating poems, songs, readings and music on the theme of Shakespeare’s legacy in theatre and the art of...
Radio series, broadcast over five consecutive days, in which Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot of a Shakespeare play and introduces music associated with it. Part 5 MACBETH includes excerpts from Verdi’s...
Radio programme on English bawdy presented by Tim Brooke-Taylor. Celebrates the history of bawdy from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Benny Hill and the ‘Carry On’ films. It asks what do Shakespeare and...
Leslie Hurry produced the stage designs for some 60 plays, operas and ballets between 1942 and his death in 1978. His first commission was Robert Helpmann’s ballet Hamlet and as a designer for the Royal...
Ellen Terry reciting Ophelia’s speech from Act IV v 5. beginning ‘Dear maid, kind sister...". The speech is included in GREAT HISTORICAL SHAKESPEARE RECORDINGS issued by Naxos (Catalogued separately).
Radio drama. Fourth in a series of five short plays inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets. Sonnet 140 is the inspiration behind Lee Mattinson’s surreal tale. Drug-addled reveller Noel has bitten off...
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