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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...