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Radio broadcast. Trevor Cox of Salford University considers whether a computer could ever create a work of art that could match Shakespeare’s creativity or stand up to critical scrutiny. He has a 3D model...
Ellen Terry reciting Portia’s speech from Act IV i beginning ‘The quality of mercy is not strain’d...' The speech is included in GREAT HISTORICAL SHAKESPEARE RECORDINGS issued by Naxos and...
British science fiction television serial. The Doctor and Romana are on holiday in Paris in 1979 when they sense that someone is tampering with time. He, Romana and a private detective named Duggan are then...
Television arts documentary. Prior to the opening of Franco Zeffirelli’s Italian production of Hamlet at the National Theatre, London, Zeffirelli is seen directing the scene between Hamlet and Gertrude...
Television documentary. The first episode in a six-part series in which director Richard Eyre gives his personal view on the history of the theatre in the twentieth century. Eyre considers the enduring...
Feature film based on a novel by Norman Lindsay. Brad Morahan is a disenchanted artist who hides himself away on the Great Barrier Reef. There he encounters the drunken Ma Ryan and her pretty grand-daughter...
Radio play written and directed by Mike Hodges, this reworking of King Lear tells the uncompromising story of 80-year-old criminal despot KT (George Sewell) who owns a landfill site in outer London. Cherie...
Radio current affairs and news programme presented by John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Includes an item, introduced by Humphrys, that reports on Ian McKellen recording a few lines from Sonnet 18 ‘Shall I...
Radio broadcast. In preparing to take on the role of Othello for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hugh Quarshie goes in search of the wisdom of others about the ethical conundrums of a black actor playing the...
Last in a radio series on Shakespeare’s ‘Best Supporting female roles’. Presenter Judi Herman talks to some of the women playing parts of the ‘country wenches’, such as Audrey and Phoebe from As...
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