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From Bards to Blues (2007 Radio)
aka: BBC Proms 2007 Prom 35
A live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Geoffrey Smith. Jazz musicians John Dankworth and Cleo Laine celebrate their 80th birthdays with a combination of Shakespeare and jazz. Dankworth...
BBC Proms Chamber Music (2007 Radio)
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- Afternoon on 3
The Proms Chamber Music broadcast that starts of the 4-hour Afternoon on 3 programme is presented by Penny Gore. Tenor Philip Langridge brings a personal contribution to the centenary celebration for...
BBC Proms 2007 (2007 Radio)
aka: Prom 42
This live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Fiona Talkington, brings together two key themes: Shakespeare and Sibelius. The concert programme starts with Sibelius’s complete incidental music...
Proms Artist Focus (2007 Radio)
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- Artist Focus
Radio programme presented by John Shea showcasing a sequence of music with a featured Proms performer. In this episode Valery Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace in music from Mendelssohn’s...
Hamlet (2007 Multimedia)
- Series
- Sourcebooks Shakespeare Series, The
Combined book and audio CD. The CD includes Laurence Olivier in HAMLET (1948), and Simon Russell Beale as Hamlet in John Caird’s 2000 production for the National Theatre. There are recordings from Ellen...
Julius Caesar (2007 Multimedia)
- Series
- Sourcebooks Shakespeare Series, The
Combined book and audio CD. The CD includes Orson Welles in a 1938 recording of Mark Antony’s funeral oration speech and Adrian Lester giving the same speech in the Arkangel recording. There are...
Macbeth (2007 Multimedia)
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- Sourcebooks Shakespeare Series, The
Combined book and audio CD. The CD includes Orson Welles reciting the ‘tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’ soliloquy, and Stephen Dillane performing the same speech from the New Cambridge Shakespeare...
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2007 Multimedia)
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- Sourcebooks Shakespeare Series, The
Combined book and audio CD. Includes John Gielgud in a recording from the 1930s reciting a speech of Puck’s, plus performances from Michael Maloney, Amanda Root and David Harewood. The text is illustrated...
Othello (2007 Multimedia)
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- Sourcebooks Shakespeare Series, The
Combined book and audio CD. Includes a speech from Edwin Booth from 1890, and a 1944 recording of Paul Robeson delivering Othello’s address to the senate. There are performances by Paul Scofield, F. Scott...
Romeo and Juliet (2007 Multimedia)
- Series
- Sourcebooks Shakespeare Series, The
Combined book and audio CD. Includes Ellen Terry in a 1911 recording compared with a Kate Beckinsale recording from 1997. There are contributions from Kenneth Branagh, John Gielgud, Judi Dench and Joseph...