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Television series on the movies. In episode 10 Franco Zeffirelli, Richard Burton and Kenneth Tynan talk to Peter Kennerley about Zeffirelli’s The TAMING OF THE SHREW chosen for the Royal Command Film...
A recording of Verdi’s Macbeth taped at a performance of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1972. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by John Pritchard. Glyndebourne production by Michael...
Radio broadcast. Piers Burton-Page discusses with classicist Edith Hall and literary historian Roger Savage, why the tradition of deus ex machina is so enduring, focusing on the operas of Mozart and the...
Feature film version of the play. A bawdy and boisterous production, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which reduces the play to the Katharina/Petruccio romance
Second of three programmes of ‘fact and fancy’ concerned with Shakespeare’s Welsh characters. H. P. Burton’s dramatic feature tells the story of the first production of King Henry IV, Part 1, and...
Television dramatised documentary on Shakespeare’s life, produced by the BBC as a contribution to the quatercentenary celebrations. Narrated by Hugo David.
First of three programmes of ‘fact and fancy’ concerned with Shakespeare’s Welsh characters. According to Radio Times listing notes, the dramatic feature by H. P. Burton tells the story of the first...
An unabridged version, with Richard Burton as Coriolanus, Michael Hordern as Agrippa and Jessica Tandy as Volumnia.
Radio broadcast. As part of a series of 26 weekly programmes "designed as an anthology of the best-known and best-loved speeches and scenes" from Shakespeare’s better known plays, this episode (10)...
`Concise acting versions’ of ten plays read by Richard Burton, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Anna Massey, Sarah Churchill, Michael Redgrave, Peter Finch, Peter O’Toole and others. The...
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