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Denmark Hill (2014 Radio)
- Series
- Saturday Drama
- Director
- Tristram Powell
- Producer
- Marilyn Imrie
Radio drama by Alan Bennett. In a leafy south London suburb 15-year old schoolgirl Harriet struggles with an essay on Shakespeare’s view on the family as her ailing father Frank lies on his deathbed...
Madness of King George, The (1995 Film)
- Director
- Nicholas Hytner
- Producer
- Stephen Evans; David Parfitt
Adapted from Alan Bennett’s stage play ‘The Madness of George III’, the film focuses on King George’s deteriorating mental condition that opens the door for court intrigue and the usurping of the...
Fortunes of War. Episode 2: June 1940 (1987 Television)
- Series
- Fortunes of War
- Director
- James Cellan Jones
- Producer
- Betty Willingdale
Television serial, in seven parts, based on the Balkan and Levant trilogies, Olivia Manning’s autobiographical accounts of her travels with her husband Reggie Smith between 1939 and 1943. Together for the...
Englishman Abroad, An (1983 Television)
- Director
- John Schlesinger
- Producer
- Innes Lloyd
Made-for-television film. Acclaimed recreation of the meeting between actress Coral Browne and British spy and defector Guy Burgess, in Moscow in 1958. The initial meeting took place in a theatre, where...
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1982 Television)
aka: The Shakespeare Plays
- Series
- BBC Television Shakespeare
- Director
- David Jones
- Producer
- Shaun Sutton
Television production of the play with Richard Griffiths as Falstaff and Prunella Scales as Mistress Page. Director David Jones regarded the play as ‘a realistic documentary about what life was like in a...
Hamlet (1970 Television)
- Series
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
- Director
- Peter Wood
- Producer
- George LeMaire
Television production of the play, adapted by John Barton. A romantic conception, lavishly designed in the Regency period. Interpreted with clarity but with no great insights. Richard Chamberlain is Hamlet.
Beyond the Fringe: So That’s the Way You Like It (1961 Video)
A sketch from the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe, written and performed by Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller, and first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1960. The sketch...