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BBC Television Shakespeare
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BBC Television Shakespeare In 1978 the BBC, which had sporadically televised a number of Shakespeare's plays, embarked on a plan to produce all of them at the rate of about six a year. Cedric Messina was originally in charge of the project; Jonathan
Miller took over after two years, to be succeeded by Shaun Sutton. Directors include Miller himself, Elijah Moshinsky, Jane Howell, David Jones, etc. Some cuts are m...
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TELEVISION & RADIO: RADIO CHOICE - Shakespeare Retold Monday to Friday, 3.30pm BBC RADIO 4
The Independent on Sunday
; ... story and cast it in a new mould. Television is currently doing it to Shakespeare, but Shakespeare himself filched from past authors ... scholar Dr Carol Rutter shows how Shakespeare transformed the material. First is ...
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BBC plans biggest Shakespeare season
The Independent - London
; THE BBC is to show the most comprehensive Shakespeare season yet seen on television. It will include drama, feature films ... concentrate less on the plays, and more on Shakespeare's reputation and popularity today. One documentary, Shakespeare On The Estate, looks at whether ...
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Nunn lays into BBC for Shakespeare-lite
The Sunday Telegraph London
; THE PLAY'S the thing . . . but not if you work for the BBC. Sir Trevor Nunn, one of Britain's most celebrated theatre directors, has criticised the corporation for expunging Shakespeare from four new film adaptations of the Bard's work. Sir Trevor, the former head of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the ...
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A story-teller's story-teller A television historian has got closer to the real Shakespeare than many an academic, says Jonathan Bate
The Sunday Telegraph London
; In Search of Shakespeare by Michael Wood BBC, pounds 20, 352 pp pounds ... THERE ARE many books on Shakespeare by professional academics ... by contrast, works in television, so he knows that he ... story. In Search of Shakespeare was written in conjunction ... central theme of William ...
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Bard given top marks by TV fans; SHAKESPEARE AS POPULAR AS CORONATION STREET SAY TELEVISION VIEWERS.(Features)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; Byline: MARION McMULLEN Theatre Writer TELEVISION fans believe Will Shakespeare is up there with top TV favourites like Coronation Street, EastEnders and The Royle ... the Irish question and poll tax riots. The MORI poll was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The results have been launched to ...
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