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Swan Song (2006 Radio)
- Director
- Martin Jenkins (2)
Radio drama. An adaptation, by Michael Frayn, of Anton Chekhov’s one-act play. An elderly actor, having given his final and benefit performance, falls asleep drunk in the theatre. He wakes up, still in his...
Lenny and Will (2006 Radio)
- Producer
- Simon Elmes
Starting at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, comedian Lenny Henry goes in search of the secret of the bard’s success through interviews with well-known Shakespeare directors and interpreters, including...
Tell Tale Teachers - Pupils Plotting (2006 Television)
- Series
- Shakespeare Shorts
Educational television. Programme for teachers that documents the results as schools around Britain respond to the challenge of producing a 60-second version of a Shakespeare play. The programme begins with...
Coronation Street[03/04/2006] (2006 Television)
- Series
- Coronation Street
- Producer
- Steve Frost
Television soap opera. CORONATION STREET for many months had been running a story in which Mike Baldwin (played by Johnny Briggs) was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In this episode, confused and...
Waterloo Road (2006 Television)
- Director
- Jim Loach
- Producer
- Claire Phillips
Television drama series about a failing comprehensive school. In episode 7, of the eight-part series, students were asked to present the Complete Works of Shakespeare in 15 minutes (only part of the death...
Shakespeare and Englishness (2006 Radio)
- Series
- Sunday Feature
- Producer
- Paul Quinn
Radio discussion. Jonathan Bate and his guests Michael Dobson, Peter Ackroyd and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown examine the role Shakespeare has played in the national consciousness and debate what England meant to...
Shakespeare and English Music (2006 Radio)
- Producer
- Clive Portbury
Fiona Shaw discusses music inspired by the words of Shakespeare. Includes music by Quilter, Britten, Finzi and Vaughan Williams and songs written for The Tempest from its first production in 1609 to...
Now Show, The [12/05/2006] (2006 Radio)
- Series
- Now Show, The
British comedy sketch programme in which Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis satirise the week’s news in stand-up, sketches and songs. This episode’s concern with defining social groups briefly considers the...
Being Hamlet (2006 Television)
- Series
- Imagine...
- Director
- Rupert Edwards
- Producer
- Rupert Edwards
Television anthology arts series. Alan Yentob presents a documentary about three actors who are preparing to play Hamlet. Welsh actor Wayne Cater is directed by Michael Bogdanov for the Wales Theatre...
In a Questionable Shape (2006 Radio)
aka: Daunt and Dervish
- Series
- Afternoon Play
- Director
- Colin Guthrie
- Producer
- Colin Guthrie
Radio detective series. In this episode, the Daunt and Dervish Detective Agency is involved in a case of blackmail that takes Josephine and Susan back to the Old Vic Theatre and its current production of...