SHAKESPEARE

Henry V (1989 Radio)

Series

Play of the Week (BBC World Service)

Director

Walter Acosta

Two-part production of Shakespeare’s play adapted by Brett Usher, directed by Walter Acosta, starring David Schofield as Henry. No further information available (12/2008).

After Agincourt (1989 Radio)

In this account of the battle of Agincourt experienced through the eyes of Pistol (Bob Hoskins), writer Peter Mottley focuses the action of the play on the minor characters of Shakespeare’s Henry V and how...

Kenneth Branagh, Film Director for Henry V (1989 Radio)

Independent Local Radio programme. Kenneth Branagh talks to Gill Pyrah on the opening of his film HENRY V, his debut as a film director. He speaks about his role as director, challenges in filming including...

After Agincourt (1988 Radio)

Director

Alfred Bradley

Dramatic monologue for radio by Peter Mottley which imagines the Battle of Agincourt as told by a common soldier - Prince Hal’s drinking companion, Pistol.

Henry V (1985 Video)

Director

Adrian Noble

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1984 production of Henry V. Directed by Adrian Noble with Kenneth Branagh in the title role.

Shakespeares Rosenkriege I und II (1985 Audio, Radio)

aka: Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses I and II

Director

Rolf Schneider

Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s major tetralogy directed and adapted for broadcasting by Rolf Schneider. 200 years of English history are told by the figure of the Shakespearean fool (Fritz Lichtenhahn),...

Muse of Fire, A (1984 Television)

Series

All the World’s a Stage

Producer

Harry Hastings

13-part television documentary series on the history of theatre, written and presented by Ronald Harwood. Episode 5, A MUSE OF FIRE, looks at the roots and background to Shakespeare’s theatre. Includes...

Acting Shakespeare with Ian McKellen (1982 Television, Video)

aka: Shakespeare Workshop: Acting Shakespeare with Ian McKellen Ian McKellen - Acting Shakespeare

Director

Kirk Browning

Producer

David Susskind; Andrew Susskind

A videorecording of Ian McKellen’s one man show, ‘Acting Shakespeare’. In two parts: 1 (60 min): McKellen talks about his career as a Shakespearean actor and about Shakespeare’s life and writing,...

Great Shakespeareans (1982 Audio)

Collected excerpts of recordings made between 1890-1937. AS YOU LIKE IT: Ben Greet reads Act II Scene i; John Gielgud reads Act II Scene vii. HAMLET: John Barrymore reads Act II Scene ii; Johnston...

Shakespeare: ‘Henry V’ (1982 Audio)

Series

Seminar

Reginald Watters discusses the play. The recording is designed to stimulate both group discussion and individual research, to suggest ways of organising material, and to encourage personal response to the text.