Homepage

Accessibility links

  • Skip to content
  • Accessibility Help
BBC Account
Notifications
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • iPlayer
  • Sounds
  • Bitesize
  • CBeebies
  • CBBC
  • Food
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Innovation
  • Culture
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Video
  • Live
More menu
Search BBC
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • iPlayer
  • Sounds
  • Bitesize
  • CBeebies
  • CBBC
  • Food
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Innovation
  • Culture
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Video
  • Live
Close menu
Shakespeare Lives
  • Home
  • Watch Now
  • Features
  • The Plays & Sonnets
  • About
  • TV & Radio
  • Shakespeare on Tour
  • BBC Arts

Audio & Video

You must enable JavaScript to play content
The Magic Behind Derek Jarman's 1979 Film of The Tempest
Discover how Derek Jarman expressed his unique vision of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
  1. The Magic Behind Derek Jarman's 1979 Film of The Tempest
    17:49
    The Magic Behind Derek Jarman's 1979 Film of The Tempest
  2. The technical rehearsal
    02:05
    The technical rehearsal
    View More From Tomorrow

    'Tomorrow' in rehearsal

  3. Composer Scanner on the music of ''Tomorrow'
    02:38
    Composer Scanner on the music of ''Tomorrow'
    View More From Tomorrow

    'Tomorrow' in rehearsal

  4. 'Tomorrow' in rehearsal
    02:07
    'Tomorrow' in rehearsal
    View More From Tomorrow

    Shakespeare Lives

  5. Early TV appearances: Penelope Wilton and Brenda Blethyn - King Lear (BBC, 1982)
    03:17
    Early TV appearances: Penelope Wilton and Brenda Blethyn - King Lear (BBC, 1982)
  6. Ivy's Henry VIII
    00:20
    Ivy's Henry VIII
  7. King Lear: Lear divides his kingdom
    08:22
    King Lear: Lear divides his kingdom
  8. New Shakespeare Songbook: Switzerland
    04:12
    New Shakespeare Songbook: Switzerland
  9. What would you ask Shakespeare? Bruce Robinson
    00:28
    What would you ask Shakespeare? Bruce Robinson
  10. "To Be or Not To Be" in 60 seconds!?
    01:01
    "To Be or Not To Be" in 60 seconds!?
  11. Sitar playing for A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe
    01:27
    Sitar playing for A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe
  12. Early appearances: Christopher Plummer and Michael Caine - Hamlet at Elsinore
    04:45
    Early appearances: Christopher Plummer and Michael Caine - Hamlet at Elsinore
  13. The final dance from the cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream
    02:00
    The final dance from the cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream
  14. Cheek by Jowl's Measure for Measure - Death Dance
    03:56
    Cheek by Jowl's Measure for Measure - Death Dance
  15. Now playing
    Up next

More from Shakespeare Lives

  • Great Shakespeare Speeches
    Great Shakespeare Speeches
    Relive some of the most memorable, classic and timeless Shakespeare speeches.
  • Shakespeare's Globe: The Complete Walk
    Shakespeare's Globe: The Complete Walk
    Watch the films which were at the heart of the Globe's celebratory weekend on London's Bankside.
  • Shakespeare in Ten Acts
    Shakespeare in Ten Acts
    Charting Shakespeare’s constant reinvention across the centuries, curator Zoe Wilcox takes Andy Akinwolere on a tour of the British Library's new exhibition.
  • Tomorrow
    Tomorrow
    Watch a preview of a new Macbeth inspired dance work from Rambert, available internationally soon on this site.
  • New Shakespeare Songbook
    New Shakespeare Songbook
    Shakespeare's plays and sonnets get the Eurovision treatment
  • Hay Festival: Talking About Shakespeare
    Hay Festival: Talking About Shakespeare
    Dame Judi Dench gives Richard Eyre a surprising recommendation for learning to speak Shakespeare...

Act Videos

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live
  • Ballet, Opera and the Bard - Royal Opera House
  • Being Hamlet
  • Breakfast with The Bard - Shakespeare's New Place
  • Brunch with the Bard
  • Dream On! - University of Glasgow
  • Garrick's Shakespeare Ode & A Shakespeare Masque - Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Go, Make You Ready
  • Hamlet Returns - Shakespeare's Globe
  • Hay Festival
  • King Lear
  • New Shakespeare Songbook
  • Richard II
  • Richard III - Ian McKellen at the BFI
  • Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere
  • Shakespeare Round the World
  • Shakespeare Sex-List Song by Michael Nyman
  • Silent Shakespeare - from Shakespeare Day Live
  • Sound of Cinema - King Edward VI School, Stratford upon Avon
  • The BFI presents Silent Shakespeare
  • The BFI presents the magic behind Derek Jarman's The Tempest
  • The BFI presents Welcome to Shakespeare Land!
  • The Complete Walk - Shakespeare's Globe
  • The Late Plays - Shakespeare's Globe
  • The Works
  • Cymraeg
  • Gàidhlig
  • Gaeilge

Explore the BBC

  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • iPlayer
  • Sounds
  • Bitesize
  • CBeebies
  • CBBC
  • Food
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Innovation
  • Culture
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Video
  • Live
  • Terms of Use
  • About the BBC
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • Cookies
  • Accessibility Help
  • Parental Guidance
  • Contact the BBC
  • Make an editorial complaint
  • BBC emails for you
  • Advertise with us
Copyright © 2026 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.

You might also like:

news | sport | weather | worklife | travel | future | culture | world | business | technology