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Television chat show in which guests discuss with the host the things they dislike most and would like to consign to ‘Room 101’ (a reference from George Orwell’s novel 1984). Comedian Frank Skinner,...
US documentary series analysing the physiology and psychology of laughter. In episode 4, INHIBITION, E.B. Pettit (Chairman of Arts, Brandeis University) explains Freud’s theory that laughter helps people...
Advertisement for Heinz Tomato Ketchup. A curtain with an image of the sauce label rises on the Heinz Theatre Company. A bottle of ketchup is adorned with a blond curly wig and a pink hat with a feather....
Television drama by Francis Cockrell based on Rupert Croft-Cook’s original story. In order to get a murderer to confess, a detective hires a famous Shakespearean actress to play the ghost of the dead man,...
Comedian Ronald Frankau, in his customary top hat and tails and smoking a cigarette in a long holder, recites a humorous rhyming monologue on blood in Shakespeare’s plays because ‘I like to see a murder...
Ken Campbell’s version of Macbeth, directed by Campbell, and spoken in Pidgin English (Wol Wantok). Performed by 2nd year students at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA). This recording...
Portrait written by Edith Sitwell of would-be-actor and English eccentric Robert ‘Romeo’ Coates, also known as Cock-a-doodle-doo Coates. Son of a West Indian millionaire, Coates arrived in England with...
Fiction comedy short. When a staging of Hamlet fails the manager insists on putting on a revised version and persuades a wealthy girl to play Ophelia. In the performance the Ghost does a song and dance...
Pop music series. This episode contains the following 6 minute sketch. "A scene of a medieval wedding is about to take place, with confrontation by Iago, who walks dragging along Lily Tomlin who is clutching...
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