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African Forum (1963 Radio)

Radio broadcast: An item (2 mins) in the programme. John Neville talks to an audience about West African audiences’ reactions to Shakespeare’s plays, having recently completed a ten week tour of West...

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Shakespeare’s World (1991 Video)

Written in 1983 by Dr Levi Fox, Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the compilation of three 30-minute videotapes is an appreciation of Shakespeare complemented with quotations from his works....

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Behind the Curtain (1948 Radio)

Series

Children’s Hour

In this BBC Children’s Hour programme presenter James Pestridge takes two Midland children on a tour of some of Shakespeare’s boyhood possible haunts in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the Shakespeare Memorial...

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Shakespeare on Five Dollars a Day (1982 Radio)

Series

Afternoon Theatre

Director

Robert Cooper

Radio play written and directed by Douglas Kennedy. set in Dublin, it focuses on visiting American academic Bradshaw (Blain Fairman), whose main reason for accepting his post in the English department is to...

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Much Ado About Nothing (1964 Radio)

Series

Best of Shakespeare, The

Radio broadcast. Fourth in a series of 26 weekly programmes "designed as an anthology of the best-known and best-loved speeches and scenes" from Shakespeare’s better known plays. This episode showcases...

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Shaking Up Shakespeare (1932 Radio)

Broadcast as part of a mixed variety radio programme, this appears to have been an all-male variety sketch based on Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Written by Con West, this item is presented by John...

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As You Like It (1953 Radio)

Director

Glen Byam Shaw

Producer

William Hughes

Radio recording of Glen Byam Shaw’s stage production of the play at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. With Anthony Quayle as Jaques and Barbara Jefford as Rosalind. The music is...

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Henry V (1991 Video)

Series

Wars of the Roses, The

Director

Michael Bogdanov

Producer

Jean-Paul Chapple; Mark Saunders

A modern interpretation by the English Shakespeare Company, recorded at the Grand Theatre, Swansea before a live audience. The seven plays in the ‘Wars of the Roses’ cycle were performed over seven...

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Richard II (1991 Video)

Series

Wars of the Roses, The

Director

Michael Bogdanov

Producer

Jean-Paul Chapple

A modern interpretation by the English Shakespeare Company, at the Grand Theatre, Swansea before a live audience. The seven plays in the ‘Wars of the Roses’ cycle were performed over seven nights, with...

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Richard III (1991 Video)

Series

Wars of the Roses

Director

Michael Bogdanov

Producer

Jean-Paul Chapple

A modern interpretation by the English Shakespeare Company, recorded at the Grand Theatre, Swansea before a live audience. The seven plays in the ‘Wars of the Roses’ cycle were performed over seven...

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