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Much Ado About Comedy (2016 Radio)
- Producer
- Hayley Redmond
Radio broadcast. Matt Lucas explores Shakespeare’s comedies and examines whether they have an influence on current humour. Today we interpret comedy from a different perspective than 400 years ago - comedy...
Shakespeare’s Fools (2012 Video)
- Series
- Alumni Weekend
Podcast. Filmed lecture. "Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones, discusses the real life characters and contemporaries of Shakespeare that inspired, shaped, and on occasion performed the various roles of the...
Night Waves [31/03/2010] (2010 Radio)
- Series
- Night Waves
BBC Radio 3 arts series. Special episode dedicated to the figure of the fool in British culture, examining how the ideas embodied in the fool resonate in a culture still anxious about what its comedians can...
Shakespeare’s Fools (2000 Radio)
- Series
- Sunday Play
- Director
- Kate Rowland
Radio broadcast relayed live from Wilton’s Hall in London. Comic duo Karl Minns and Owen Evans (the Nimmo twins) host a guide to fooling that is illustrated by fools scenes from Shakespeare, performed by a...
Lord What Fools we Mortals Be (1995 Video)
- Series
- Front Row Centre
One of a series of educational videotapes discussing the performing arts. In this programme three professional actors demonstrate the role of clowns and fools in Shakespeare’s day by using monologues and...
Fool in Britain, The: The Theatrical Figure in His Mediaeval Background (1984 Video)
- Director
- Joyce Taylor
- Producer
- Sandra Billington
Medieval illuminations presented to illustrate attitudes to the fool in medieval Britain and his role in society. The discussion includes the character’s appearance in morality plays and in Shakespeare.
Shakespeare’s Fools and Clowns (1984 Audio)
Sound recording. Actor Geoffrey Hutchings delivers The Shakespeare Lecture at the 1984 Cheltenham Literary Festival. From Cheltenham Town Hall.
King Lear: The Fool (1975 Television)
- Series
- Open University A201
- Producer
- Richard Callanan
A programme in the Open University Renaissance and Reformation Course. Cicely Havely looks at scenes in King Lear to which the Fool’s role is central and tries to analyse his part in the play’s action...
Twelfth Night. Part 7: The Wind and the Rain (1959 Television)
aka: Wind and the Rain, The
- Series
- For Schools
- Director
- Peter Robinson (2)
Eight-part television drama series for schools, presented by John Westbrook. Episode 7 discusses the character of Feste and the role of the Fool.
Conscience of the King, The (1952 Radio)
- Producer
- Terence Tiller
Radio play written and produced by Terence Tiller. Listed as a ‘Study of the Fool in King Lear’, the programme begins with a ‘fade up’ on an excited group of radio actors in a BBC studio about to...