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  • Pattern of Painful Adventures, The (2008 Radio)

    Series
    Drama on 3
    Director
    Jeremy Mortimer
    Producer
    Jeremy Mortimer

    Radio play written by Stephen Wakelam. It is 1607, business is going well but Shakespeare (Sher) urgently needs a collaborator for his latest work. His daughter (Longworth) is about to marry and his brother...

  • Bunch of Amateurs, A (2008 Film)

    Director
    Andy Cadiff
    Producer
    David Parfitt

    Feature film comedy. Ageing Hollywood star (Burt Reynolds) signs up to play the title role in King Lear in Britain to revive his flagging career. He believes the role is part of a Royal Shakespeare Company...

  • Dreams of Avarice (2008 Television)

    Series
    Ascent of Money, The
    Director
    Adrian Pennink
    Producer
    Melanie Fall; Joanna Potts

    Six-part documentary series on the history of global finance written and presented by Professor Niall Ferguson. In this first episode Ferguson speaks (c 10 mins) about the history of usary, referring to...

  • Interview: Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett (2008 Audio, Multimedia)

    Philip Fisher talks to Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett, joint-artistic directors of the British theatre company Frantic Assembly, about their radical new vision of Shakespeare’s Othello playing at the...

  • King Lear (2008 Television)

    Director
    Trevor Nunn; Chris Hunt
    Producer
    Chris Hunt; Richard Price

    A restaging by Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt of Nunn’s 2007 production of King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Ian McKellen in the title role.

  • To Be or Not to Be ... In Shakespeare (2008 Television)

    Director
    Neil Crombie
    Producer
    Emma Cahusac

    Television documentary. Actors speak about about the challenge of performing Shakespeare. Their comments are illuminating - Ian McKellen believes his first thirty years of Shakespearean acting to have been...

  • Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll: The Sixties Revealed [08/12/2008] (2008 Television)

    Series
    Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll: The Sixties Revealed
    Director
    Verity Maidlow
    Producer
    Verity Maidlow

    Three-part series screening previously unseen television interviews with Bernard Braden given in 1968. In this second episode Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting speak about their roles in Zeffirelli’s ROMEO...

  • Twelfth Night (2008 Video)

    Director
    Sean Holmes

    Mixed video recording, using four cameras, of Filter’s production of Twelfth Night directed by Sean Holmes. Poppy Miller is Viola and Ferdy Roberts is Malvolio.

  • Front Row [16/12/2008] (2008 Radio)

    Series
    Front Row

    Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. A BUNCH OF AMATEURS, a British film comedy, opens this week with Burt Reynolds playing a washed-up Hollywood action star who finds himself playing the...

  • Small Town Murder, A (2008 Radio)

    Series
    Woman’s Hour Drama
    Producer
    Clive Brill

    5-part radio crime mystery by Scott Cherry, set in Stratford-upon-Avon and featuring police family liaison officer Sue Hartwell (Meera Syal). Hartwell investigates the sudden death of great Shakespeare...