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Pre-school history series. Grandad Harvey takes Asher on a journey of discovery to find out what life was like for a child during Elizabethan times. Dressing up in magnificent Elizabethan costumes, they...
Fiction short. A depiction of the seven ages of Man in eight tableaux. The titles are: Infancy, Playmates, Schoolmates, Lovers, The Soldier, The Judge, Second Childhood and What Age? (showing an old woman...
Radio 3 poetry series. Christopher Ricks explores some short poems worth remembering. The first episode focuses on Frances Cornford’s ‘Childhood’ and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73.
Film about the life and career of Alicia Alonso from childhood to her 90th birthday celebration in 2010, interspersed with performance footage and photographs. The extracts from dances include ‘Shakespeare...
Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Sarah Beckwith. The lecture focuses on Mamillius, dealing with questions of initiation,...
Themed episode of the series in which two teams of amateur antique collectors have an hour to acquire the best bargains on a budget and then see what happens when the items are sold at auction. Presented by...
Video recording of the work devised by Elaine Feinstein and directed by David K.S. Tse. Three young girls, isolated from parents who are absent due to their jobs, are cared for by a Nanny who gives them...
US television interview series hosted by Patrick Watson. The interviewer (Gregory Jackson, uncredited and off-screen) was recorded at the time McKellen was on Broadway playing Salieri in Peter Schaeffer’s...
Television arts documentary series. A profile of Nigel Hawthorne as he prepares to play the title role in King Lear, directed by Ninagawa, for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The programme follows him through...
Feature film. In this giallo a young opera singer, Betty (Marsillach) gets her big chance to sing Lady Macbeth when the previous star of an avant garde production of Verdi’s Macbeth breaks her leg....
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