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A ten-part podcast series, presented by Jennifer Reid, from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, exploring some of the most frequently asked questions about Shakespeare’s life. Most of the documents that...
Murder/mystery detective drama series. An amateur production of Hamlet, in which his daughter plays Ophelia, gives DCI Barnaby a clue to the murderer. The story also has Hamlet parallels in that soon after...
Television sitcom starring George Burns and Gracie Allen as themselves, a show business couple in their home. Each episode began with Burns standing, trademark cigar in hand, before the proscenium...
Special episode in a British sitcom created by Johnnie Mortimer about two feuding ex-business partners and neighbours Simon Peel (Donald Sinden) and Windsor Davies (Olive Smallbridge) broadcast at the end of...
Television broadcast for schools. The topic of this episode is the Elizabethan theatre. Shakespeare’s theatre is introduced via illustrative pictures and a miniature model of The Globe theatre....
Us sitcom set in the Watts district of Los Angeles, following the life of Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx), a 65-year-old African-American junk dealer who shares his business with his 34-year-old son Lamont (Desmond...
Sitcom centred on the wheeling and dealing of the Trotter brothers who run an ‘import export’ business from their South Peckham flat. In this episode Del’s wife Raquel, dreaming of a career on stage,...
Sitcom about the lives of single mother Lorelai Gilmore (Graham) and her daughter Rory (Bledel) in a small-town community in Connecticut. In this episode Rory’s school class is told to divide into five...
Feature film. David Garnet, a tin magnate, dies leaving his fortune to his wastral son on the condition that he settles down within two years. The son, King Garnet, becomes a tramp and so the business passes...
Television documentary. Joan Bakewell visits Stratford-upon-Avon where Shakespeare has become the object of adoration, scholarship and commerce as the heritage industry grows. She visits his supposed...
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