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Other People’s Dreams (1986 Television)

Series

Inner Eye

Director

Andrew Snell

Producer

Andrew Snell

Television programme in a series on human consciousness. Psychologist Nicholas Humphrey discusses why we care about fictional characters, using as illustration a performance from Hamlet (III iv). During the...

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Teddy Bergman’s International Broadcast (1936 Film)

aka: International Broadcast

Director

Milton Schwarzald

Variety/musical short compered by comedian Teddy Bergman. One sequence involves Bergman’s Shylock’s answer to Billy Reyes Antonio’s request for a loan (I iii). After Bergman first plays the sequence...

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Felix the Cat As Romeeow (1927 Film)

Director

Otto Messmer

Producer

Pat Sullivan

Animation. A parody of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. The connection with Shakespeare is slight but the sequence in which he courts his Juliet on the balcony with flowers, ice cream and banjo playing...

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In the Forest (1978 Film)

Director

Phil Mulloy

Producer

Phil Mulloy

Animation. A fictional account of 400 years of the history of England in a series of tableaux, from the feudal communities of the Middle Ages, through the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the merchants...

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Nationwide [11/07/1983] (1983 Television)

Series

Nationwide

Producer

Fiona Chesterton; Michael Hogan

A five minute sequence in the current affairs programme in which presenter Richard Kershaw discusses the growing belief that some of Shakespeare’s plays were written by Christopher Marlowe. Includes a...

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Words and Music (2017 Radio)

Series

Words and Music

Radio broadcast. A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of circles, curves and contours, with readings from Deborah Findlay and Hugh Fraser. Including texts by Shakespeare, Tennyson, Emily...

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Pure Hell of St Trinian’s, The (1960 Film)

Director

Frank Launder

Producer

Sidney Gilliat; Frank Launder

Feature film comedy about an undisciplined girl’s school. Includes a short sequence during ‘a culture festival’ in which a pupil performs a striptease while reciting the ‘to be or not to be’...

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Takeaway (1990 Television)

Series

Nightingales

Director

Tony Dow

Producer

Esta Charkham

Television sitcom about night security staff. Includes a long sequence in which Bell and Carter consider disposing of Sarge using passages from Richard III (mostly from I iv, the death of Clarence).

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Swansea Bach Choir (1992 Radio)

The Swansea Bach Choir, conducted by John Hugh Thomas with pianist Richard McMahon, sings: John Gardner - A Shakespeare Sequence, Sven-Eric Johansson Fancies and William Mathias Shakespeare Songs.

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Proms Artist Focus (2007 Radio)

Series

Artist Focus

Radio programme presented by John Shea showcasing a sequence of music with a featured Proms performer. In this episode Valery Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace in music from Mendelssohn’s...

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