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Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller. Returning home from battle, the victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heat...
This film of Macbeth is based on Chichester Festival's 2007 production of the play starring Patrick Stewart in the title role. It was filmed at Welbeck Abbey ...
A 1983 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's Macbeth. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakespeare pr...
Orson Welles's classic film version of Shakespeare's play about a Scottish nobleman heavily influenced by his wife's lust for power.
Shakespeare's classic tragedy, broadcast as part of the Play of the Month drama strand.
David Tennant makes his first ever venture into playing the tyrannical Scottish King. 2023 will be the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespear...
Each programme in this series takes scenes from Shakespeare's Macbeth. In this programme they are Act 5...
Jonathan Pryce won the SWET Best Actor Award for his Hamlet at the Royal Court in 1980. Now Pryce tackles Macbeth with the Royal Shakespeare Compan...
Television programme for schools featuring television actors not usually associated with Shakespeare in scenes from Macbeth. They ...
Each programme in this series takes a scene from Shakespeare's Macbeth. In this programme they are Act 1, Scenes ...
Each programme in this series takes a scene from Shakespeare's Macbeth. In this programme it is Act 3, Scen...
Series comparing the known historical facts about Macbeth with Shakespeare's dramatisation. Was Macbeth a murderous tyrant or a generous and popular king?
Dark forces are at work. Prophesy unhinges and torments, and the milk of human kindness curdles as a merciless fate gives no quarter to th...
Yaël Farber directs James McArdle as Macbeth and Saoirse Ronan as Lady Macbeth in the Almeida's Olivier Award-nominated production about a couple's sp...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of ambition where Macbeth saves his King from one revolt only to murder and replace him, to fulfi...
An exam revision programme that looks at the GCSE English curriculum. This episode looks at Shakespeare's Mac...
An exam revision programme that looks at the GCSE English curriculum focusing on Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's most popular and widely studied plays are unlocked by actors and directors at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Key scenes from Mac...
Literature and the arts are filled with tales of group creativity - did you know that William Shakespeare someti...
A Welsh language performance of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, translated into Welsh by T. Gwynn Jones.
First part of a weekly schools broadcast of Shakespeare's Macbeth in which the play is shown four successive 30-minute instalments.
Part 1 of 4 parts of Shakespeare's darkest play, Macbeth.
A production of Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
A 1995 BBC Radio Shakespeare adaptation of Macbeth; Stephen Berkoff makes his radio drama debut with David Benedictus's innovative version of the tra...
A 2000 BBC radio adaptation of Shakespeare's play Macbeth. Richard Eyre, one of the country's greatest theatre directors, makes his radio de...
A personal introduction to the play and its qualities by Sara Kestelman, who played Lady Macbeth in the 1983 Royal Shakespeare Company prod...
A radio adaptation of the play Macbeth, directed and produced by Martin Jenkins.
Retelling of Shakespeare plays: when three binmen tell Joe Macbeth he's to become the owner of the restaurant where they work, the head chef, spur...
A Welsh language performance of Macbeth from the Animated Shakespeare series.
An alternative tale of Shakespeare's noble king. A comedy play by The Penny Dreadfuls. Greg McHugh stars as Macbeth with Susan Calma...
Cathy MacDonald explores the fact behind the fiction of Shakespeare's Macbeth. With English hard-coded subtitles.
One big dramatic role. Stories and reflections of actors from across the world about what the role means and what it means to them. A new series for ...
Rhys Ifans plays Macbeth in a new production and the characters in Act 2 Scene 3 are examined, where King Dunc...
Playwright, screenwriter and director David Hare tells us why he is moved by Macbeth's imagining of old age - ...
A new production of Shakespeare's dark tragedy about ambition for power, starring Neil Dudgeon and Emma Fielding.
Ethan Hawke sets out to prepare himself for the possibility of playing the role by uncovering the true story behind the pla...
The first part of a 1958 TV version of Shakespeare's classic tragedy play, adapted for schools.
Crime writer Julian Symons offers his personal view of the play which he believes illustrates a classic case of the psychological condit...
The first part of a production of William Shakespeare's classic Scottish play, adapted for radio and with incidental music by John Buckland.
Shakespeare's tragedy play is updated to the present day. Set on the Ladywood council estate in Birmingham, it imagines a scenario where ...
Soviet animation of the famous tragedy, with the voices of Alec McCowen, Brian Cox, Zoe Wanamaker, Clive Merrison, Patrick Br...
Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo on his novel based on Macbeth and playwright Mark Ravenhill on why the play doesn't work onstag...
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro on 1606, Matthew Sweet, Sonia Massai and Andrew Hilton on the new Macbeth film, and Barrie Keeffe on a revi...
Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuler, Michelle Assay and New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday discuss characters in Shakespeare's Sc...
A short version of William Shakespeare's play by satirist, author and actor John Wells, especially written for the Edinbur...
Performance of Verdi's great dramatic opera, sung in the original Italian. The text is by Piave, after Shakespeare. The BBC's first studio opera pr...
A Hidden Treasure play, first broadcast, live, in July 1971. An innovative stereo version of The Tragedy of Macbeth, starring Joss Acklan...
Following actor David Harewood as he attemps to turn a group of inner city teens into accomplished Shakespearean actors in just five days.
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