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  • Denis Healey (2005 Television)

    Series
    Hinterland

    Television documentary series in which Poet Laureate Andrew Motion talks to public figures about their favourite poetry and poets. In this episode former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, discusses...

  • In Search of Shakespeare (2003 Television)

    Director
    David Wallace
    Producer
    Rebecca Dobbs

    A four-part historical documentary series on the life of Shakespeare, presented by Michael Wood.

  • Originality (2003 Radio)

    Series
    In Our Time
    Producer
    Sarah Peters

    Radio series in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas and events that have influenced modern times. ORIGINALITY debates whether the notion of originality began with the Romantics in the 18th century,...

  • Those Magnificent Gods in Their Flying Machines (2003 Radio)

    Series
    Twenty Minutes

    Radio broadcast. Piers Burton-Page discusses with classicist Edith Hall and literary historian Roger Savage, why the tradition of deus ex machina is so enduring, focusing on the operas of Mozart and the...

  • O (2001 Film)

    Retelling of Othello for a contemporary audience, with a teenage cast and set in a high school. A young man becomes blinded with jealousy and rage when his friend captains the basketball team instead of him....

  • Twenty Minutes [24/09/2001] (2001 Radio)

    Series
    Twenty Minutes

    Radio documentary. Critic Christopher Ricks reflects on the influence and presence of Shakespeare on the novels of Brian Moore.

  • Radio 3’s Shakespeare Day - Compilation Tape (2000 Audio)

    Extracts include: Sonnet 130 read by dairy farmer, Norman, on his tractor. - Trail for As You Like It with Helena Bonham Carter and David Morrissey. - Sonnet 2 read by Vicki Wilson at South Tyneside College....

  • Shakespeare’s Hands (2000 Radio)

    Series
    Scottish Shorts

    Radio drama. In Paul R. Hyde’s short story "a man encounters Shakespeare in a dream and finds him to be a scoundrel, a rogue - and a waiter in Verona" (Radio Times, programme notes, p. 127). The story is...

  • Dream Kitchen (1999 Film)

    Director
    Barry Dignam
    Producer
    Barry Dignam; Katherina Fay; Conor McKiernan

    Fiction short. An allegory on ‘coming out’ set in working-class Dublin. A son comes home to his family to find his father repairing the car, and his mother in the kitchen cooking as usual. As he...

  • Heavy Metal Hamlet (1999 Video)

    Director
    Jacqui Carroll

    An experimental interpretation of Hamlet. "Hamlet is placed at the centre of the maelstrom and Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius and all the other players circle around him. As Hamlet floats on the waves they swim...