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Peggy Ashcroft (1965 Television)

Series

Great Acting

Producer

Hal Burton

Television documentary series. Dame Peggy Ashcroft is interviewed by David Jones on the stage of the Aldwych Theatre and in the studio about her acting career and her views on the profession. Includes clips...

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Two Loves: Poetry and Music from the Age of Elizabeth I (1987 Television)

Producer

Ron Isted

Programme of Shakespeare’s poetry and John Dowland’s music to celebrate Peggy Ashcroft’s 80th birthday. Includes extracts from Othello, Venus and Adonis, The Phoenix and Turtle and Shakespeare’s...

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Tonight [22/11/1975] (1976 Television)

Series

Tonight

Twice-weekly television news magazine programme. In this episode Ludovic Kennedy interviews Peggy Ashcroft. In her first television interview Dame Peggy speaks of her unease at the way stage drama translates...

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Romeo and Juliet (1978 Radio)

Series

Prefaces to Shakespeare

Producer

Judith Bumpus

A personal introduction to the play by Peggy Ashcroft, who talks about her first attempt at the role of Juliet as a twenty-three year old in John Gielgud’s first production for the Oxford University...

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Class, The (1961 Film, Television)

Series

Monitor

Director

John Schlesinger

Presents a series of exercises relating to basic acting problems. Shows the work of a first-year group of students at the Central School of Speech and Drama; their activities guided by the actor Harold Lang....

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Collectors’ Library of Ten Great Shakespeare Plays: Concise Acting Versions (1961 Audio)

`Concise acting versions’ of ten plays read by Richard Burton, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Anna Massey, Sarah Churchill, Michael Redgrave, Peter Finch, Peter O’Toole and others. The...

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Winter’s Tale, The (1965 Audio)

Director

Peter Wood

Complete performance directed by Peter Wood with John Gielgud as Leontes and Peggy Ashcroft as Paulina.

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Stratford’s Shakespeare (1985 Audio)

A history of performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, commissioned to celebrate the RSC’s 25th anniversary. Features reminiscences by famous actors who have played there: James Dale, who...

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All the World’s a Stage: A Collection of Shakespeare’s Speeches (1995 Audio)

Series

BBC Radio Collection

An anthology of Shakespearean speeches from the BBC Sound Archive. Romeo and Juliet (I iii) - Fay Compton; Hamlet (III i) - Michael Redgrave; Henry V (IV iii) - Richard Burton; King Lear (II iv) - Alec...

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Merchant of Venice, The (1953 Radio)

Producer

William Hughes; Denis Carey

Radio version of the play performed by the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company with Peggy Ashcroft as Portia and Michael Redgrave as Shylock. Produced by William Hughes from Denis Carey’s 1953 production...

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