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Tragedy of Coriolanus, The (Audio, Radio)

aka: BBC Radio Collection: William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

Director

Ned Chaillet

Subject

Drama

Radio adaptation of the play adapted and directed by Ned Chaillet. Samuel West plays the title role and Susannah York is Volumnia. With music composed by Orlando Gough, and performed by Jeremy Avis and the...

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Hawksmoor

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 540 minutes (cassette) 670 mins (CD)), £36.95 (cassette) £49.95 (CD)

Detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates a series of macabre murders on the sites of certain 18th century churches. The unabridged novel by Peter Ackroyd is read by Derek Jacobi.

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Merchant of Venice, The (Film)

Director

Orson Welles

Extracts from a promotional film which Welles made to attract financial backers for what was to be originally a short television adaptation. Filmed on location in Venice, Welles as Shylock (in costume)...

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Moor’s Pavane (Television)

aka: Moor’s Pavanne, The

Director

Bob Banner

Subject

Dance

Anthology arts series hosted by Alistair Cooke. One section (16 mins) includes José Limon’s contemporary ballet inspired by Othello. Music by Henry Purcell arranged by Simon Sadoff. The director of the...

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King Lear Jet (Television)

Director

Lee Shallat-Chemel

US television sitcom about a former journalist, Maya Gallo, who begins a new job writing for her father’s women’s magazine Blush. Jack has two tickets for a London performance of King Lear, but when...

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Falstaff - Live from the Royal Opera House (Radio, Television)

Director

Humphrey Burton

Producer

Susan Judd

Subject

Drama; Music

Verdi’s opera in a production by Graham Vick and directed for television by Humphrey Burton. The Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra are conducted by Bernard Haitink. Introduced for television by James...

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My Shakespeare (Television)

Director

Michael Waldman

Producer

Michael Waldman; Ashley Gething

Subject

Drama

Television documentary. Eight years after completing WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO + JULIET, director Baz Luhrmann challenges a group of young and mainly black people to come up with their vision of the...

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Shakespeare (Television)

Director

Christopher Walker

Producer

Christopher Walker

Subject

Drama

Television arts documentary series presented by Melvyn Bragg. The episode includes interviews with Harold Bloom on why Shakespeare invented human nature, Kenneth Branagh on romantic love and his new film...

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Romeo & Juliet (Television, Video)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Alan Horrox

Producer

Sue Mather

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Out of distribution (2006).

Television production of Romeo and Juliet commissioned for C4’s Middle English schools slot. Directed by Alan Horrox with Geraldine Somerville as Juliet and Jonathan Firth as Romeo.

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Belle of 14th Street (Television)

Director

Joe Layton; Walter C. Miller

Producer

Joe Layton

Television special. Barbra Streisand and Jason Robards in a musical revue fashioned after vaudeville shows from the turn of last century to the 1920s. At one point in the show Streisand and Robards as ‘The...

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