Shakespeare: The History Plays, Part 2 (2008 Audio, Multimedia)

In this sequel to her first interview, Heather Neill questions Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, about the various challenges of staging the RSC’s two-year Histories cycle...

Michael Boyd (2008 Radio)

Series

Downstage Centre

Radio broadcast. Michael Boyd discusses the overwhelming success of his recent history play cycle in both Stratford and London, his vision for ensemble theatre making and the future of the Royal Shakespeare...

Johnny Shakespeare (2007 Television)

Series

Afternoon Play, The

Director

Jim Cartwright

Television drama written and directed by Jim Cartwright. Johnny comes from a broken home and lives with his alcoholic, bingo-addicted gran on a housing estate. He is illiterate. He meets Diane, a drama...

Henry V (2007 Video)

aka: Enrico V

Director

Pippo Delbono

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of a production inspired by Shakespeare’s Henry V, performed by Compagnia Pippo Delbono in collaboration with ERT - Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione. The...

Shakespeare: The History Plays, Part 1 (2007 Audio, Multimedia)

Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speaks about the cycle of Shakespeare’s history plays which he has directed. He also speaks of the advantages of the thrust stage and how...

Twenty Minutes: The Adverb [07/09/2007] (2007 Radio)

Series

Twenty Minutes

Radio programme. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ literary interval programme Paul Allen’s guest is the novelist Kate Mosse who chooses and discusses her favourite writing on the subject of leadership....

Rugby World Cup Live (2007 Television)

Director

Paul McNamara

Producer

Simon Moore (2)

Live coverage of the England v France 2007 Rugby World Cup first semi-final at Stade de France, Paris presented by Jim Rosenthal. In the build-up coverage, Geoffrey Streatfeild, currently rehearsing the role...

Henry V (2007 Multimedia)

aka: Stagework

Director

Martin Percy; Peter Reynolds

Producer

Tanya Lock

Using an interactive format created by BT, online education partner of the National Theatre, the website gives audiences (and particularly young people who are studying Henry V as part of the national...

Henry V (2007 Video)

Director

Michael Boyd

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of Michael Boyd’s 2007 production of Henry V with Geoffrey Streatfeild in the title role.

Laurence Olivier Shakespeare Collection (2007 Video)

7-disc set containing KING LEAR (tx 3/4/1983), THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (tx 10/02/1974) AS YOU LIKE IT (1936), HENRY V (1944), HAMLET (1948) and RICHARD III (1955). Also includes a Michael Parkinson interview...