A wonderful variety of excerpts from the works of the Bard with some of the best voices ever. Covering so many incredible performances from Peggy Ashcroft's Juliet to Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in Anthony and Cleopatra. Bob Peck taming the shrew of Cheryl Campbell. Richard Burton's Henry V and his stirring St Crispian Day speech. Judi Dench's plays Julia from the Two Gentlemen of Verona. John Gielgud...
Shrewsbury, 1139. The bloody civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud has swept through the country towards the rural security of Brother Cadfael’s monastery. The citizens of Worcester have fled, among them two orphaned children of noble stock, together with their tutor, a young nun. A Benedictine monk in whose care Lady Ermina...