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- What really happened during Shakespeare's 'Lost Years'? Hopeless lute-player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream.
- Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
- Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this perfidious brother and his confederates on the island, his long contemplated revenge at last seems within reach.
- Antonio and his friend Bassanio borrow money from Shylock, a rich Jew, so that Bassanio may marry. When the payment is due, Bassanio can't pay and Shylock demands a pound of his flesh.
- Grotesquely violent and daringly experimental, Titus was the smash hit of Shakespeare's early career, and is written with a ghoulish energy he was never to repeat elsewhere.
- Terry Jones hosts this series that looks at the real facts about the Middle Ages and its roots.
- Imagining that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page have each fallen for him, the fat knight Sir John Falstaff decides to seduce them both, as much for their husbands' money as for their personal charms. Wise to the old rogue's tricks, the women turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket.
- Basing his plot on a farce by Plautus, Shakespeare caps the mayhem of his Roman original to build up a hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furious slapstick and social nightmare.
- Shakespeare's masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henry's campaign to recapture the English possessions in France. But the ambitions of this charismatic king are challenged by a host of vivid characters caught up in the real horrors of war.
- Four young men swear off love in order to focus on their studies, only to have their plans go awry when four lovely ladies enter their lives.
- Mexico, 1910. Claudio and Benedick return home from the first wave of the revolution. Claudio has been pining for his love, Hero. Benedick loves her cousin Beatrice and Beatrice Benedick; but because neither will admit it, nothing seems likely to bring them together. Only the intrigues of a revolutionary with a dark heart, force Benedick to prove his love for Beatrice - by vowing to kill his best friend, Claudio.
- Documentary series which sees Fred Dibnah touring Britain's great building feats.
- In April 2011, eight actors, two stage managers and one wardrobe manager set out to tour a production of Hamlet around the UK and Europe.
- In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
- 2002–8.0 (6)TV EpisodeBilly points out some of the sights as he travels down the Thames to the Globe Theatre. Exploring the now disused Down Street tube station reveals where Winston Churchill bunkered down during WW2. Climbing the stairs to see Big Ben allows him to play the part of a ghostly figure. A wander around some of London's finest parks takes him to the Elfin Oak and a pet cemetery.
- The end of term is looming. Some of the kids have been inspired by the star teachers, but the pressure is on to reach the rest. Contains a lesson in fertility. Strong language and surgery
- Duff and his crew head across the pond to make cakes for Shakespeare's Globe Theater and Michelin starred St. John restaurant.
- The discovery that Stevie was keeping secrets forces River to reassess how well he knew his colleague and friend. Unlocking her voicemails throws suspicion on somebody close to Stevie; somebody with real motive and a history of violence.
- We follow Aziraphale and Crowley's friendship across the ages. Meanwhile, in the present day, Agnes Nutter's descendant Anathema arrives in Tadfield on her own mission to save the world.