Five to Eleven | Paul Alexander

As You Like It

Paul Alexander reads extracts from Shakespeare's As You Like It (All the World's a Stage) and The Tempest (Prospero's Epilogue).

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  • Type: Factual, Plays
  • Channel: BBC One
  • Duration: 20'05''
  • Broadcast date: 1987
Usage

UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted

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