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BBC television comedy sletch show. This episode Includes a c3 minute sketch in which Harry Secombe plays the gravedigger to Julian Orchard’s Hamlet. While Hamlet makes his speech he is interrupted by...
Video recording of a two-part event held at the The Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta, Georgia. The first part is entitled ‘A Fellow’s Tribunal’ in which Sammie Byron, who served 31 years in jail for...
Feature film. A version of the Lear story displaced to modern America. When Harry, a retired English teacher, is evicted from his apartment he cries out a tirade from King Lear. Like Lear, Harry has three...
Interest film. Shows scenes of London life including a view of St Paul’s Cathedral from the site of the Old Globe Theatre, followed by scenes from a performance of As You Like It played on a brewer’s...
Rural documentary series. In this episode Graham Castle, secretary of the Gloucestershire Rural Community Council, presents the Uley Village Players, an amateur Shakespeare company from the county. He...
Harry E. Humphrey recites the Seven Ages of Man speech from As You Like It (III ii) and Hamlet’s advice to the players (11 Vii); on the reverse side he recites Shylock’s justification of the Jew (III i).
A BBC topical arts magazine series. This episode includes an interview with Edward Bond, who talks about his play Lear that premiered the same week with Harry Andrews in the title role. Bond states that his...
Comedy-drama cased on the true story of amateur historian Philippa Langley (played by Sally Hawkins) and her involvement in the unearthing of the remains of King Richard III in Leicester in 2012. She is...
Television charity variety revue. An evening of comedy acts, classic comedy shows and reports on the charities benefiting from the programme in Great Britain and Africa. Includes Jonathan Pryce and comedian...
Detective film. Nick Torrent (Morgan) owns a scrap of a priceless Shakespeare manuscript and wants to sell it; but then he is murdered and the manuscript is stolen. Joel Sloane (Montgomery) is a rare book...
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