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Documentary. Explores the history of films based on Shakespeare’s plays. There are interview extracts with Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Roman Polanski, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Franco...
A personal view of the play presented by Penelope Mortimer. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by...
Two-part production of Shakespeare’s play, adapted and directed for radio by David Hitchinson. With Ian Holm in the title role and Penelope Wilton as Lady Macbeth. The music is specially written by Colin...
Educational videotape. Casting often determines where an audience’s sympathy lies; choosing an actor to play a major role like Richard II or Bolingbroke can be a complex procedure, often requiring a...
Educational videotape. What do fairies look like? How can magic be staged meaningfully in modern theatre? The programme presents scenes from several filmed versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that show...
Live sound recording of Peter Gill’s 1981 production of Much Ado About Nothing with Penelope Wilton as Beatrice and Michael Gambon as Benedick.
A television production of the play that never made it to the screen. It was directed by Donald McWhinnie in 1978 with the intention of being shown as part of the first series of the BBC Television...
A video recording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s all-female 2004 production of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Tamara Harvey with Yolanda Vasquez as Beatrice and Josie Lawrence as Benedick.
The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own.
Television variety charity revue benefiting charitable causes in Great Britain and Africa. Includes a two-minute spoof of Macbeth played as a sitcom. In the living room Mrs Macbeth tells her husband that he...
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