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A one-off special comedy sketch television programme. The episode included a take on the final scene in Othello with Frankie Howerd and Cilla Black.
Music/comedy series presented by and starring Cilla Black. The show includes a comedy sketch on Romeo and Juliet written by Talbot Rothwell (screenplay writer of the Carry On films, many of which starred...
BBC television comedy series. Billed as ‘an episode in the life of a laughing stock of television’. Howerd plays an out-of-work, frustrated, small part actor, desperate to secure a Shakespearean role....
Travelogue. English life in Autumn, Winter and Spring. Includes sequences from the Old Vic production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with comedian Frankie Howerd as Bottom at the play rehearsal and Titania...
Radio version of the play arranged and produced for broadcasting by Raymond Raikes. With Frankie Howerd as Launce and Perlita Neilson as Julia. The music is composed by Anthony Bernard who also conducts the...
Radio programme on English bawdy presented by Tim Brooke-Taylor. Celebrates the history of bawdy from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Benny Hill and the ‘Carry On’ films. It asks what do Shakespeare and...
Compilation videotape. Shakespeare parodies and spoofs from the television holdings of the BFI National Archive, London. Compiled by Luke McKernan and Charles Fairall. THE BOWMANS (Hancock) [BBC tx 2.6.61]...
A 15-minute extract from the stage perfomance relayed from the Old Vic Theatre, London, and presented for television by Derek Burrell-Davis.
Second in a 3-part series examining Shakespeare in performance. Devised and produced by John Powell, the programmes are compiled with recordings from the Sound Archives featuring voices and opinions of...