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Anthology arts series introduced by Huw Wheldon. Ian Bannen talks about Hamlet, in particular the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1961 staging directed by Peter Wood with Bannen in the title role. Wood is also...
Radio broadcast. Four-part series in which Huw Edwards discovers how some operatic masterpieces reflect the political and social circumstances of their age. In the final edition Edwards talks about Verdi’s...
Late-night topical satire show, popularly known as TW3, presented by David Frost. In this episode there is a 4-minute Shakespeare sketch which satirises the arts series Monitor. David Frost is Huw Wheldon...
Television programme going behind the scenes at the Old Vic theatre. The Old Vic was in its third year of a five-year project to stage all Shakespeare’s plays working from the First Folio. There are shots...
Three members of the Old Vic Theatre Company appear in scenes from Michael Benthall’s stage production of the play. Huw Wheldon presents.
A broadcast of an as-live recording from the Harold Pinter Theatre of Robert Icke’s production of Hamlet starring Andrew Scott. Directed for the screen by Rhodri Huw.
Anthology arts series. Huw Wheldon chairs a discussion on Hamlet with Orson Welles, Peter O’Toole and Ernest Milton. O’Toole describes Hamlet as a play about three sons all trying to avenge their fathers...
Radio broadcast. A version of Judith Gick’s stage monologue, written for Anna Barry and first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1981. It puts together historical fact and the internal evidence from...
Complete performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth with Denis Quilley and Hannah Gordon as the Macbeths.
Radio adaptation of the play presumed to be by William Shakespeare and others. Directed by Michael Jenkins. With Ian McKellen in the title role. Music composed by Philip Lane.