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Jerry Orbach, Nancy Andrews, Hal Buckley, Clifford David, and Micki Grant perform songs from the musical. Howard Da Silva, who performed the role of Larry Foreman in the world premiere, discusses directing the revival on this episode of Camera Three. The Cradle Will Rock was originally produced by Orson Welles for the Federal Theater Project.
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Little Dorrit is a miniseries produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston and based on Charles Dickens' serial novel. In Episode 1, Amy Dorrit lives in the Marshalsea Prison for Debt with her father, William Dorrit, who has been an inmate for countless years. Although born and bred in the prison, she has grown up to be an enterprising young woman. As the story begins, she gains employment as a seamstress at the House of Clennam under the stern and formidable...
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On this episode of Camera Three, playwright Eric Bentley discusses his recent adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man (Mann ist Mann). Olympia Dukakis, Clifford James, and James perform excerpts of the production, including The Song of Recruitment of the 20th Century, A Man's a Man, and The Song of the Ganges River.
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On this episode of Camera Three, Myron McCormick, Dorothy Greener, Gerald Hiken, Edith King, Berard West, Salem Ludwig, and Alice Pearce perform a dramatization of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls. Chichikov travels with his servants to local landowners hoping to purchase the names of dead serfs who still appear on the tax rolls.
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Camera Three presents dramatic interpretations of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poems. Performers include Betty Bartley, Richard Dysart, James Green, Charles MacArthur, John McGovern, and Sandy Smith. Listen to poetry from The Three Taverns, Children of Night, The Town Down the River, and other collected works.
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Catherine Morland has a too-ordinary life and a feverish imagination. When she gets invited to Bath, she is immersed in a world of elaborate balls and handsome men-and when Henry Tilney takes her to his family estate, she becomes mired in a world of fact and fantasy. Is there a dark mystery behind the locked doors of Northanger Abbey? And why is her budding romance suddenly cut short? Felicity Jones stars as Catherine and JJ Feild as Henry in Andrew...
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The Earnshaw children expect gifts from their father when he returns to Wuthering Heights after a trip, but are instead greeted with the arrival of Heathcliff, an adopted young Gypsy boy. Quiet and mysterious, Heathcliff is befriended by his new step-sister Cathy Earnshaw, and the two become inseparable. In adulthood their bond deepens to love, but a forced absence opens Cathy to the affections of a different suitor. Given the choice between a life...
19) Persuasion
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Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet. Can Frederick...
20) Flambards
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Christina is sent to live with her domineering, crippled Uncle Russell and her cousins Mark and William at 'Flambards', a rambling, decaying mansion in England in the early 1900's.