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Television documentary made exclusively for BBC Knowledge. Richard Eyre examines Shakespeare’s contribution to literature and talks to renowned actors about their interpretations of his work. Peter Hall...
Television documentary celebrating the opening of the National Theatre on London’s South Bank. Containing a large amount of archival material, it shows the history of the National Theatre project from the...
Radio broadcast. Ian McKellen talks to Sonia Beesley about the National Theatre production of Coriolanus in which he plays the title role. Included are short extracts recorded during rehearsals with the...
Video recording of The Peter Hall Company’s production of The Merchant of Venice with Dustin Hoffman as Shylock.
Radio programme on the speaking of Shakespeare’s verse. Samantha Bond examines whether there is a ‘right way’ of speaking Shakespeare’s dramatic verse. Besides consulting Judi Dench, she interviews...
Comedy drama series created by Simon Wheeler and starring Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk-based solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the locals who come to him for legal assistance....
Audio recording. Edward Hall, the artistic director of the all-male Shakespeare ensemble Propeller talks to Dominic Cavendish about his approach to Richard III and The Comedy of Errors, the company’s...
Live sound recording of Peter Hall’s production of Othello for the National Theatre with Paul Scofield in the title role.
A version made for American television, but not transmitted, of Peter Hall’s 1959 staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Charles Laughton as Bottom and Vanessa Redgrave as Helena.
Two-part radio programme in which psychoanalyst and former England cricket captain Mike Brearley tries to understand and define the art of the theatre director. Through interviews with directors Katie...
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