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Bowmans, The (1961 Television)

Series

Hancock

Producer

Duncan Wood

Sitcom starring Tony Hancock. Hancock, playing Old Joshua Merryweather, is very unpopular with the cast and is unceremoniously sacked from the radio serial ‘The Bowmans’ (a spoof of ‘The Archers’)....

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Review [7/4/1972] (1972 Television)

aka: Zulus in Macbeth Umabatha

Series

Review

Director

Michael Macintyre; Welcome Msomi

Producer

Michael Macintyre; Tony Cash; Tony Staveacre; Peter Adam

Arts review series. The first item reports on a Zulu production of Macbeth staged as part of Peter Daubeny’s World Theatre Season at the Aldwych Theatre, London. The play is uMabatha by Welcome Msomi. (See...

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Ken Dodd: Comedian (1978 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Tony Cash

Producer

Tony Cash

Television arts documentary. Ken Dodd talks to Melvyn Bragg about his career and theories of comedy. Includes Dodd in performance at Manchester Palace Theatre, and reproducing his ‘straight’ role as...

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Player King, The (1978 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Producer

Tony Cash; Andrew Snell

Television arts documentary. In 1976 and 1977 Alan Howard played three major roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s repertory - Coriolanus, Henry V and Henry VI (in parts 1, II and III). The programme...

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Vanessa Redgrave (1994 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Jack Bond

Producer

Tony Cash

Television arts documentary series. Profile and interview with Vanessa Redgrave. Vanessa Redgrave talks to Melvyn Bragg about her father Michael Redgrave and her mother, Rachel Kempson. She speaks of her...

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