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"a midsummer nights dream" (51 results)
The first part of a radio version of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night's Dream, arranged and produced in stereo by Raymond Raikes. ...
Sue MacGregor reunites cast and creatives to explore how director Peter Brook's revolutionary A Midsummer N...
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores five Shakespeare plays that cross the racial divide. This editi...
Key scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream are explored through performance, to unlock the meaning of language and deve...
Children's drama: Cook and Line from Swashbuckle help William Shakespeare put on a magical production of A Midsummer Nigh...
Poetry programme for pre-school children: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. To celebra...
Russell T Davies' adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, from 2016. In the tyrannical court of Athens, dictator Theseus plans his wedding...
Shakespeare, cities, rivers and A Midsummer Night's Dream in Book Club.
The earliest surviving television adaptation of Shakespeare's magical play, broadcast on 9 November 1958, in the BBC's Sun...
A 1971 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic comedy, broadcast as part of the Play of the Month drama strand. The play ...
Dr Roy Strong gives his personal view of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He visits Hatfield House to introduce the pl...
A 1981 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic comedy play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Te...
A production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
The actress, Frances De La Tour, who played Helena in Peter Brook's 1970 production for the Royal Shakespeare Theat...
The RSC, Northern Broadsides theatre company and Hartcliffe School in Bristol, offer three very diffe...
Television programme for schools featuring television actors not usually associated with Shakespeare i...
From nightingales to glow worms, natural phenomena inspired A Midsummer Night's Dream. The RSC's Gregory Doran investigates whether rural ...
An updated retelling of Shakespeare's romantic comedy. A Midsummer Night's Dream is transferred to a holiday centre. Cue f...
Screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce and critic Helen Nugent review the first Shakespeare production at the new Shakespeare North th...
Adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy centring on the adventures of four young lovers, recorded on location in 22 acres of Sussex w...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas behind Shakespeare's comedy with its intertwining plots of royal marriage, crossed lo...
Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot line of a Shakespearean comedy and plays music associated with it. These includes works by M...
Radio 3's Shakespeare season continues with a 1999 radio adaptation of the Bard's magical comedy. This production was broad...
A radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, produced and directed by David Spenser. The music is performed by the Trinity Boy...
We meet our storyteller Puck, and learn about the impending marriage of Duke Theseus and Queen Hippolyta.
A night of madness in a haunted wood - four young victims of unrequited love stumble about while six ...
William Shakespeare narrates his classic play, full of music, magic and muddles.
Shakespeare's riotous tale of love and magic, filmed live at the Globe Theatre in 2016. Emma Rice's exuberan...
A rare chance to watch Shakespeare's play and Mendelssohn's complete incidental music for it, in a r...
The BBC Singers and their chief conductor Sofi Jeannin combine music for a midsummer's evening with...
Robin Ray introduces a programme devoted to the work of Frederick Ashton. It includes an outline of his career with photograp...
A sitcom based on the lives of the two 'Dear Ladies', Dame Hilda Bracket and Dr Evadne Hinge: Stackton Tressel is bursting with excitement as...
A behind-the-scenes look at the Royal Shakespeare Company's current production of A Midsummer N...
Following six amateur actors as they join the Royal Shakespeare Company in performing A Midsummer Night's ...
When Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream opened on Broadway, the New York theatre critic, Clive Barnes, described it as ' ... with...
Shakespearean sitcom: Will has a problem with A Midsummer Night's Dream, a love potion and a donkey head.
The 1956 Festival is remembered by five visitors in a film made by the BBC Television Film Unit in co-operation with Filmske Novosti , Belgrade. The fi...
Sitcom starring Ronnie Corbett as Timothy Lumsden, who is promoted from prompter to Bottom in local dramatic society production of A Midsummer N...
A Welsh language performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream from the Animated Shakespeare series.
William Shakespeare, trans. Prof. Mohamed Enani Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day (Sonnet 18) read by Islam Issa and William Shakespeare A...
Selections of poetry on various themes chosen by listeners. In honour of Shakespeare's birthday, poetry to celebrate the life and work of the most ...
The line "The course of true love never did run smooth" from Midsummer Night's Dream summarises the experience of love p...
Education programme: Ricky Boleto and Leah Gooding go in search of William Shakespeare. They find out about Shakespeare's early life in Stratford-upon-...
Michael Parkinson interviews Dr. Jonathan Miller. Jonathan Miller states that he prefers directing plays and operas to performing. He directed A...
An introductory documentary to launch the series of animated Shakespeare plays including A Midsummer Night's Dream. Six of the best-loved plays have b...
Celebrity Shakespeare devotees join members of the public to recite some of Shakespeare’s best-known and best-loved speeches and so...
Shakespeare's rise to fortune and fame features in the third of Michael Wood 's four-part series. With Romeo and Juliet and A...
Welsh language documentary to launch a series of animated Shakespeare plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream. Six of the be...
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