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  1. Wyrd Sisters, The (1997 Television)

    Director
    Mark Hall
    Producer
    Jean Flynn

    Animation version of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. sagas televised in six parts. Wyrd Sisters is a parody on Macbeth. Granny Weatherwax returns, along with fellow witches Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick. The...

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  2. Vulgar Company (1977 Radio)

    Series
    Vivat Rex
    Director
    Martin Jenkins (2)
    Producer
    Martin Jenkins (2)

    Episode 8 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Henry IV,...

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  3. Bird’s Eye Cod in Mushroom Sauce Advertisement (1970 Television)

    Television advertisement for Bird’s Eye ‘Cod in Mushroom Sauce’. June Whitfield, as Anne Hathaway, affecting a Warwickshire accent worries about Will (Terry-Thomas) who is struggling to find a title...

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  4. Benny Hill Show, The [26/12/1968] (1968 Television)

    Series
    Benny Hill Show, The
    Producer
    Kevin Carter

    Comedy sketch series. Includes a sketch in which Benny Hill is a programme planner on the telephone to an up-and-coming writer William Shakespeare. No further details known [10/2007].

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  5. Matter of Spreadeagling, A (1963 Television)

    Series
    More Faces of Jim
    Producer
    Douglas Moodie

    Series of comedy playlets starring Jimmy Edwards, with June Whitfield and Ronnie Barker. This episode parodied The SPREAD OF THE EAGLE BBC series. Set in Roman Britain the play incorporated cod Shakespearean...

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  6. Here we Go (1955 Television)

    Director
    Kenneth Carter

    Variety show. In one episode (transmission date not known) June Whitfield appears in a sketch as a roller-skating Lady Macbeth.

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  7. Take It from Here [11/02/1951] (1954 Radio)

    aka: Hamlet Pantomime

    Series
    Take It from Here
    Producer
    Charles Maxwell

    BBC radio comedy series. In a sketch within this episode June Whitfield (Hamlet), Jimmy Edwards (Gertrude) and Alma Cogan (Ophelia) stage Hamlet as a pantomime. Sections of the dialogue run thus: June: Now,...

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