Richard III (1984 Radio)

Series

Play of the Week (BBC World Service)

Producer

Gordon House

Radio version of Shakespeare’s play abridged in two parts by Anthony Vivis and Tinch Minter and produced by Gordon House. With Simon Callow in the title role. No further information available (1/2009).

Sources of Shakespeare’s Richard III, The (1984 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Tinch Minter researches source material from which Shakespeare wrote his play. His main resources seem to have been the English chronicles of Edward Hall (1548) and Raphael Holinshed...

Ricardo III (1984 Television)

aka: Richard III

Director

Manuel Aguado

Spanish television production of Richard III directed by Manuel Aguado with Eusebio Lázaro as Richard. No further information or role names known (5/2009).

Richard the Third, The Tragedy of (1983 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

Jane Howell

Producer

Shaun Sutton

Television production with Ron Cook in the title role.

Richard III (1983 Television, Video)

Series

Shakespeare in Perspective

Director

Sally Kirkwood; David Wilson

Producer

Victor Poole

A personal view of the play presented by Rosemary Anne Sisson. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by...

Richard III (1983 Radio)

Series

Prefaces to Shakespeare

Producer

Alan Wilding

A personal introduction to the play and its qualities by Edward Woodward.

Richard III (1983 Television)

Series

Shakespeare Lives

Director

Mary McMurray

Producer

Victor Glynn; Mike Ockrent

Television series. Michael Bogdanov, associate director at the National Theatre leads a group of NT actors through aspects of Shakespeare’s plays in front of an interrogative and lively audience.

Foretelling (1485), The (1983 Television)

Series

Blackadder, The

Director

Martin Shardlow

Producer

John Lloyd

Sitcom. Comedy series set in the Middle Ages featuring the exploits of self-serving Blackadder (Atkinson). Reversing history’s perceptions Richard is a kindly monarch and Henry Tudor a self-serving...

Fifth Estate [10/01/1983] (1983 Television)

Series

Fifth Estate

Producer

Karp. Morris

Public affairs series. The third item is a 13 minute report from Winnipeg on the success of the Manitoba Theatre Centre (MTC) and its artistic director Richard Ouzounian. Ouzounian, in his third year at the...

Richard III (1983 Radio)

Director

Ronald Kramer

Live radio broadcast of Denis Arndt’s 1983 stage production for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. John Aylward is Richard.