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aka: 'Shakespeare’ Evening
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- Shakespeare Night
Third in a series of ‘literary nights’ showcasing Shakespeare’s plays on radio. The programme is conducted with critical commentary by Professor Cyril Brett. Performances are by members of the Station...
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- Shakespeare’s Monarchs
Sixth in a twelve-part series of schools talks by J. C. Stobart and R. E. Jeffrey about the portrayal of kings in Shakespeare’s plays.
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- Radio Guild
The play adapted by Vernon Radcliffe. Hosted and narrated by Clayton Hamilton.
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- Shakespeare’s Historical Plays
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- Felix Felton
Radio adaptation by M. R. Ridley which condenses the three Henry VI plays into one. The production was broadcast on the Third Programme as part of a sequence of Shakespeare’s histories. With John Byron as...
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- Wars of the Roses, The
- Producer
- Peter Watts
Radio programme introducing three Shakespeare historical plays which the Third Programme presents as a continuous chronicle: Henry VI, Parts 2 and 3 and Richard III. The opening talk by series editor John...
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- Wars of the Roses, The
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- Peter Watts
Radio version of the play adapted and produced by Peter Watts and broadcast as part of a sequence of Shakespeare’s histories. With Valentine Dyall as Henry VI and Sonia Dresdel as Margaret of Anjou. The...
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- Cbc Wednesday Night
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- Andrew Allen
Radio broadcast of Henry VI adapted for radio and directed by Andrew Allen. Parts I and II are heavily cut and presented as one play. No details of cast known (2007).
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- Age of Kings, An
- Director
- Michael Hayes
- Producer
- Peter Dews
Tenth episode in a fifteen-part televised series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies), effectively presenting a chronological history of British...
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- Age of Kings, An
- Director
- Michael Hayes
- Producer
- Peter Dews
Eleventh episode in a fifteen-part televised series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies), effectively presenting a chronological history of British...
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- Director
- George Rylands
A recording Henry VI. Part 2 by the Marlowe Dramatic Society directed by George Rylands. Richard Marquand is Henry.
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aka: Henry VI
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- Leopold Lindtberg
A production for Austrian television of Henry VI directed by Leopold Lindtberg. The roles the actors played have not been found (9/2007).
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aka: Edward IV
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- Wars of the Roses, The
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- Peter Hall; John Barton
Sound recording, before a live audience, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1964 production of Henry VI. Parts 1-3 directed by Peter Hall and John Barton. David Warner is King Henry.
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- Wars of the Roses, The
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- Robin Midgley; Michael Hayes; Peter Hall; John Barton
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- Michael Barry
First of a three-part televised adaptation of Shakespeare’s minor tetralogy (three parts of Henry VI and Richard III) encompassing the period from the loss of the British Empire in France to the founding...
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- Wars of the Roses, The
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- Robin Midgley; Michael Hayes; Peter Hall; John Barton
- Producer
- Michael Barry
Second of a three-part televised adaptation of Shakespeare’s minor tetralogy (three parts of Henry VI and Richard III). Originally a Royal Shakespeare Company production directed by Peter Hall and John...
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- Line-Up
A discussion recorded on the eve of the transmission of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of The War of the Roses between stage director Peter Hall, John Barton who adapted the plays, and Michael...
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- Raymond Raikes
The Henry VI trilogy abridged and produced by Raymond Raikes and broadcast in two parts. Part 1. Nigel Lambert is King Henry. Ian McKellen plays both Richard, Duke of York and his son, Richard, Duke of...
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- Raymond Raikes
The Henry VI trilogy abridged and produced by Raymond Raikes and broadcast in two parts. Part 2. Nigel Lambert is King Henry. Ian McKellen plays both Richard, Duke of York and his son, Richard, Duke of...
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- Music and Shakespeare
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- Alan Owen
Third of three weekly programmes on words and music from Shakespeare’s plays devised and produced by Alan Owen, starring Barry Foster. This episode focuses on Hamlet, Henry IV Part 2 and King Lear
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- Vivat Rex
- Director
- Gerry Jones
- Producer
- Gerry Jones
Episode 18 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 VI,...
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- Vivat Rex
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- Martin Jenkins (2)
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- Martin Jenkins (2)
Episode 19 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 VI,...
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- Shakespeare and the Histories
Second of a 5-part series of scholarly talks on Shakespeare’s history plays. Emrys Jones looks at the new dramatic genre of the Shakespearean secular history play within the theatrical fashion of its time.
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- 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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- Terry Hands
Live sound recording of Terry Hand’s 1977 production of Henry VI. Part 2 for the Royal Shakespeare Country with Alan Howard as Henry.
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- Director
- Dave Rogers (2)
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- Dave Rogers (2)
Award show which includes extracts from Alan Howard in Coriolanus and Henry VI to illustrate his nominations for Best Actor. Howard won the Best Actor award for his title role in Coriolanus directed by Terry...
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- Pam Brighton
Video recording of Pam Brighton’s conflation of the Henry VI tetralogy for the 1980 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Stephen Russell is King Henry.
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- Shakespeare in Perspective
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- Barbara Derkow
- Producer
- Victor Poole
A personal view of the play presented by Michael Wood. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by stressing...
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- BBC Television Shakespeare
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- Jane Howell
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- Jonathan Miller
Television production directed by Jane Howell who was responsible for the entire tetralogy (the three parts of Henry VI plus King Richard III). With Peter Benson as King Henry VI and David Burke as Duke of...
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- Prefaces to Shakespeare
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- Gordon Hutchings
A personal introduction to the Henry VI plays by actor Brewster Mason, who played Warwick in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1963 ‘War of the Roses’ trilogy.
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- Shakespeare, Course A361
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- David Hoyle
This workshop, based on Act II iii, shows how a group of experienced actors, with relatively little input from a director, set about developing a strategy to preserve the comic tone of the scene, while not...
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aka: Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses I and II
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- Rolf Schneider
Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s major tetralogy directed and adapted for broadcasting by Rolf Schneider. 200 years of English history are told by the figure of the Shakespearean fool (Fritz Lichtenhahn),...
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- Plantagenets, The
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- Adrian Noble
An adaptation into three parts of all three parts of Henry VI, and Richard III. The plays were performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the titles Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III. They were...
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- Plantagenets, The
- Director
- Adrian Noble
An adaptation into three parts of all three parts of Henry VI, and Richard III. The plays were performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the titles Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III. They were...
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- Wars of the Roses, The
- Director
- Michael Bogdanov
- Producer
- Jean-Paul Chapple
A modern interpretation by the English Shakespeare Company, recorded for 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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- Wars of the Roses, The
- Director
- Michael Bogdanov
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- 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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- Barry Kyle
A video recording of the Theatre for a New Audience production of the Henry VI trilogy directed by Barry Kyle. The three parts are conflated into two and were performed in repertory. Videotaped for Theatre...
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- Michael Kahn
Michael Kahn’s distillation of the Henry VI trilogy for the Shakespeare Theatre Company with Philip Goodwin as Henry. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.
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aka: Poet for All Time
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- Master Poets Collection
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- Mike Gibbon
- Producer
- Marshall Jamison
Alan Howard presents some of Shakespeare’s best known passages. Contents: As you like it ( ‘All the world’s a stage’); Sonnet 30 (`When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’); Sonnet 18 (`Shall...
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- Arkangel Complete Shakespeare
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- Clive Brill
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- Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd
The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with David...
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aka: Henry VI Parts 2 and 3
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- Ruediger Burbach
A video recording, using a single camera, of Ruedinger Burbach’s 1999 production of Henry VI Parts 2 and 3. Henry VI is played by Katharina Schmoelzer.
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- This England: The Histories
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- Michael Boyd
A video recording, using two cameras (upstage and downstage), of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2000 production of Henry VI, Part 2. Directed by Michael Boyd with David Oyelowo as King Henry.
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- West Wing, The
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- Alex Graves
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- Aaron Sorkin
American television series about the inner workings of the federal government starring Martin Sheen as President Jed Bartlet. In this episode President Bartlet issues an illegal order to assassinate a...
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- Director
- Leon Rubin
Video recording of Leon Rubin’s 2002 production of Henry VI Parts 1 & II for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Michael Therriault is Henry.
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- Leon Rubin
Video recording of Leon Rubin’s 2002 production of Henry VI Parts II & III for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Michael Therriault is Henry.
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aka: Henry VI
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- Peter Palitzsch
A production, for German television, of Peter Palitzsch’s 1969 production at the Württembergische Staatstheater, Stuttgart. No further details known (9/2007).
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- BBC Television Shakespeare
37-disc boxed set containing all productions from the BBC Television Shakespeare series from 1978 to 1985.
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aka: Hörspiel-Archiv auf 40 Cds, Das
The 40 CD box set consists of a collection of 28 radio adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays (including a recording of Sir Thomas More) produced and broadcast on German and Austrian public radio service...
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- Michael Boyd
A video recording of the production of Henry VI. Part 2 directed by Michael Boyd with Chuk Iwuji as Henry VI.
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Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speaks about the cycle of Shakespeare’s history plays which he has directed. He also speaks of the advantages of the thrust stage and how...
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In this sequel to her first interview, Heather Neill questions Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, about the various challenges of staging the RSC’s two-year Histories cycle...
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- Downstage Centre
Radio broadcast. Michael Boyd discusses the overwhelming success of his recent history play cycle in both Stratford and London, his vision for ensemble theatre making and the future of the Royal Shakespeare...
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