Synopsis
Denis Mitchell narrates a programme looking at the people who inhabit the streets of a provincial city (Manchester) at night. Among the people encountered is a busker who entertains a theatre queue with speeches from Shakespeare.
Further Information
Similar plays, poems and sonnets
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