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Musical radio show. A spin-off series derived from Your Hit Parade and devoted to all-time favourites and standards mixed with some current hits. In what at first appears to be a dramatic scene from the...
`The Cellar Tapes’ revue. Includes a sketch (7 mins), written and acted, by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, which parodies a Shakespeare masterclass. The speech being worked on is from Troilus and Cressida,...
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 play by Susan Cooper, dramatised by Beatrice Colin. A magical adventure story set partly in the present day and partly in Elizabethan England. Chosen to play Puck in a production of A Midsummer...
A special edition of the BBC arts programme presented by Nick Ahad that follows the Royal Shakespeare’s Company’s new production of Cymbeline, the final play in Shakespeare’s First Folio - a collection...
Jonathan Miller talks about his life and work. The video is divided into 48 segments (or stories) of about 4 minutes each. In Section 27 "The Good Doctor Has to Be Different’: Directing Shakespeare’ (...
Radio comedy and panel show chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Panellists are asked to speak for one minute on a given topic without hesitation, deviation or repetition. David Tennant, making his first appearance...
A recording of Othello with Paul Robeson in the title role.
An introduction to Shakespeare and his times, focusing on the audience and actors in Shakespearean theatre and illustrating the historical context of the plays. Looks at what it was like to be in the...
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...
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