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  • Broadcasting House [07/06/2009] (2009 Radio)

    Series
    Broadcasting House

    Radio magazine programme. Steve Evans presents the show and discusses the recent political scandal of MP’s expense claims in view of what Shakespeare would have made of them. RSC actor Sam Troughton,...

  • Essential Shakespeare Live Encore, The (2009)

    Director
    Peter Hall; Trevor Nunn; John Barton; Adrian Noble; Sam Mendes; Michael Boyd; Gregory Doran; Peter Brook; Bill Alexander; David Thacker

    Following THE ESSENTIAL SHAKESPEARE LIVE the two discs feature scenes taken from RSC productions in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, recorded by the British Library and the RSC over almost half a century. As...

  • King Lear (2009 Video)

    Director
    Robert Falls

    Video recording of Robert Fall’s 2009 modern-dress staging of King Lear for the Shakespeare Theatre Company with Stacy Keach in the title role. Videotaped for WAPAVA by T.J. O’Toole.

  • Life Goes on (2009 Film)

    Director
    Sangeeta Datta

    Feature film telling of the prejudices and Islam-phobia which is still deep-rooted among some sections of immigrant Indians in London. The director sees Life Goes On as a modern retelling of King Lear, for...

  • Do Not Go Gentle (2009 Radio)

    Series
    Words and Music
    Producer
    Philippa Ritchie

    Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the challenges and consolations of old age. An extract from Cymbeline ('Fear no more’) are read by actors Barbara Jefford and...

  • Quest for Shakespeare, The (2009 Television)

    13-part television series presented by Joseph Pearce and broadcast on the US Roman Catholic cable network, EWTN. Pearce argues that Shakespeare was a Catholic examining Hamlet, King Lear and The Merchant of...

  • Shakespeare Talks # 1 (2009 Audio)

    aka: Ron Rosenbaum

    Director
    Davis McCallum

    Author of "The Shakespeare Wars" , Ron Rosenbaum, discusses directing Shakespeare, Kind Lear and the art f speaking in verse.

  • König Lear (2008 Television)

    aka: Koenig Lear King Lear

    Director
    Peter Schönhofer; Luc Bondy

    A re-staging for television of Luc Bondy’s production of King Lear for the 2007 Vienna Festival. Directed for television by Peter Schönhofer with Gert Voss as Lear.

  • King Lear (2008 Multimedia, Radio)

    aka: Lear

    Series
    In Our Time
    Producer
    James Cook

    Radio broadcast. In this episode of the programme on the history of ideas, host Melvyn Bragg discusses Shakespeare’s King Lear with guests Jonathan Bate, Catherine Belsey and Katherine Duncan-Jones. Issues...

  • Interview: Dominic Dromgoole (2008 Audio, Multimedia)

    Online audio recording of an interview with the artistic director of Shakepeare’s Globe Theatre, Dominic Dromgoole. Dromgoole talks to Heather Neill about the 2008 Shakespeare season at the Globe,...