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Having landed the role of Romeo in "Romeo an Juliet" , Jeremy discovers that tights are standard issue.
Gregory Doran, former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, looks back on the challenges he faced bringing together a cast of acclaimed actors - and even members of the Royal family - for his...
Episode 1 - The Green-Eyed Monster William Shakespeare is on a mission to achieve upward mobility for himself and his family. With his old rival, Robert Greene, firmly in place as the Master of Heralds,...
Television drama. A romantic comedy. Tourist bus driver and Shakespeare fanatic Will Green (Morrissey) wants to escape his grim existence in north London and remove himself and his family to a rose-covered...
Offbeat British television drama series created by Paul Abbott. Set in Stretford, Manchester, it follows the lives of the Chatsworth Estate’s Gallaghers, "UK’s most dysfunctional family" (Channel 4 press...
Among the excerpts from Garrison Keillor’s live variety radio show A Prairie Home Companion (1992-2008) are parodies of Hamlet - ‘The Six-Minute Hamlet’ and ‘The Family Shakespeare’. The latter...
Tony Robinson joins a group of archaeologists as they excavate the site of Shakespeare’s house in Stratford-upon-Avon. Records show that it was once Stratford’s biggest private home, with up to 20 rooms...
Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....
Documentary short written and directed by George Fleming which combines Shakespeare with modern Britain to to produce a poetic documentary about a modern British family. [Description summarised from that...
Feature film. Set in a Swedish provincial town in 1907 depicting the lives of the theatrical Ekdahl family through their siblings Fanny and Alexander. After a Christmas celebration, their beloved father,...
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