Synopsis
Join Michael Parkinson and his weekend guests for conversation, entertainment and the occasional surprise. Guests include Max Wall, actress Janet Suzman and stage director/ producer/ performer Dr. Jonathan Miller. Jonathan Miller states that he prefers directing plays and operas to performing. He directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Vienna and believes that there is a different approach to Shakespeare and the classics on the continent. He speaks of his new job producing and directing plays in the BBC Television Shakespeare series. His interest rests in Shakespeare’s use of language to express human relations when today language is often used as an instrument of repression. He talks of the great use of humour in tragedies, for example King Lear. He believes that that there is no definitive version of Shakespeare. He considers himself a bad performer.
Mastermind | 24/05/1987
Magnus Magnusson presents the programme from the University of Leicester. The last four outright winners in the first round of this year's competition are in contention for the fourth place in the final. These include Margaret Spiller (civil servant) on Minoan Crete, Kevin Ashman (civil servant) on World cinema, 1960-1980, Jean Burke (secretary) on the plays of William Shakespeare and Paul Hancock (police inspector) on the works of C.S. Forrester.
Blackadder the Third | Sense and Senility
Actors Keanrick and Mossop rehearse their Shakespearean-style play 'The Bloody Murder of the Foul Prince Romero and His Enormously Bosomed Wife.'