Globe Theatre rebuilding delayed by Travellers’ encampment
- Title
- Globe Theatre rebuilding delayed by Travellers’ encampment
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
- TX Date
- 7 Apr 1988
- Year of production
- 1988
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- Duration
- 00:02:28
- Description
- Mark Percy reports on the obstacle to film tycoon Sam Wanamaker’s plans to rebuild Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on its original spot by the Thames posed by Irish Travellers camping on the site. Includes interviews with the Travellers, who say they will refuse to move until an alternative site is provided; Wanamaker, who says it is not his problem but up to local and national government to resolve. For the AM programme.
- Contributors
- Mark Percy; Sam Wanamaker
- Keywords
- Theatre; London; Homelessness; Housing needs; Gypsies; AM (radio programme); William Shakespeare; Travellers; Globe Theatre; Performing arts; Eviction (land); Irish Travellers
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