Not a documentary, but a play about Harry Houdini, concentrating particularly on his relationship with the spiritualists - particularly Arthur and Jean Conan Doyle. Michael Moloney plays Houdini, with Graham Crowden as Conan Doyle. The play was writt
William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian double Emmy-, Golden Globe-, and Saturn Award-winning actor. He gained worldwide fame for playing Captain James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise, in the television series
Shakespeare in His Day and in Ours
First in a series of ten radio programmes in which various aspects of Shakespeare's life and work are discussed by scholars and theatre practitioners. In this episode the speaker is Margaret Webster, producer-direc
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Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne is the biggest box office draw of all
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957 was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon. The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.
Adventures Of Admiral Byrd The show is also known as "Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Adventures". This show was sponsored by Grape Nuts Flakes and ran on the CBS Network in the early 1930s. The show was recorded material that was short waved from Antarcti
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All this week we've been celebrating the life of Errol Flynn in his home town, Hobart Tasmania. There was a film festival, a charity ball and a display at the Tasmanian Museum where his father was once a curator.
This afternoon we gathered outside t
Synchronicity Corner... I'd just finished copying to CD a long-deleted double LP of Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, and was wondering what had become of Bill Mitchell, the actor who so effectively read the stories, when BBC Radio 4 provided t
Tokyo Rose (alternate spelling Tokio Rose) was a generic name given by Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II to any of approximately a dozen English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. The name is most strongly assoc
Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer-songwriter and musician who has become an icon of country music and one of the most influential musicians and songwriters of the 20th century.