Brian Rix’s Reluctant Heroes
I was sorry to learn of the death at the weekend of Brian Rix, whose BBC obituary can be found here. His campaigning for Mencap and other charities has been rightly lauded in the press, and there has been a more
I was sorry to learn of the death at the weekend of Brian Rix, whose BBC obituary can be found here. His campaigning for Mencap and other charities has been rightly lauded in the press, and there has been a more
Links as usual to articles that I have found interesting or stimulating over the past seven days. Thanks as ever to those who have pointed me towards some of them, via Twitter and in other ways, and apologies for the absence of appropriate name-checks. • more
We are delighted that our DVD box set of the BBC-RSC co-production The Wars of the Roses has been reprinted and is back on sale both here and on Amazon. Among the dozen or more 5-star Amazon reviews is more
A nation split in two, bitter struggles over national identity and the country's relationship with Europe, factional fighting for control of the ruling party, roiling discontent barely suppressed in the streets... This is England in 2016, perhaps, and most certainly England more
Last week BBC Archive Tweeted a wonderful image (detail above, full picture below) of the mobile television van at Wimbledon in 1937, the first year that BBC Television covered the championships. Inspired by that, and driven by my more
With just over a week until our release of the 1965 BBC-Royal Shakespeare Company production The Wars of the Roses as a 3-disc DVD box set, we are delighted to present here The Making of The Wars of the Roses. more
I want to begin outlining some thoughts and some questions about the idea of 'performance capture'. And I want to do so partly in response to a 'capture' of Rambert's dance work, Tomorrow, which is choreographed by Lucy Guerin more
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC is now available as a Region 2 DVD. Here it is on display today in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-uopn-Avon. Which is where it was broadcast from on 23 April. That is all.
So just what seems to be the problem? We have a shiny new web site which, while far from perfect, is a big step on from what was here before. While we were working on how to structure the new site more
Just released on DVD and Blu-ray by BFI Publishing are two sets of dramatised biographies made by Ken Russell at the BBC in the 1960s. The Great Composers contains Elgar (1962), The Debussy Film (1965) and Delius: Song of more