The tempest
Television adaption of Shakespeare’s play that uses a framework of conspiracy to weave fancy and realism into a plot that speaks to audiences today. On an enchanted island, an exiled Duke and two young lovers encounter the occult, finding good and...
Troilus & Cressida
A dramatization of Shakespeare’s play about two lovers caught in the vicissitudes of the Trojan War. A well-acted production, with creative use of the camera, it presents the modern interpretation of the play as the negation of chivalry, love and ...
Twelfth night
With practical jokes, poetry and haunting songs, this is the most subtle of Shakespeare's comedies. In an aristocratic country house, we see the infatuation of Orsino, the devoted loyalty of Viola, the selfless friendship of Antonio and the self lov...
The long search with Ronald Eyre: Protestant spirit USA
In the 1100 churches of Indianapolis, we see bewildering multiplicity of Protestantism. Churches with the seating and styling of deluxe first-run theaters. Services conducted with the professionalism of television spectaculars. And congregations tha...
The long search with Ronald Eyre: 330 million gods
Traces the Indian religious experience in two highly contrasting locations: the bustling city of Benares where millions come to bathe in the holy waters of the Ganges, and the small village of Bhith Bhagwanpur, unvisited except by professional story...
The long search with Ronald Eyre: footprint of the Buddha
To Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and India to discover the type of Buddhism practiced throughout southeast Asia. Among those we meet are Buddhist monks - including one American, school children, novices and housewives. Each offers something from his own experi...
The long search with Ronald Eyre: Rome, Leeds and the desert
Catholicism, especially since Vatican II, has undergone many changes. In this episode filmed in Rome, Spain and England, we discover the diversity and the unity of the religious experience labeled the Holy Catholic Church. Join Ronald Eyre as he di...
The long search with Ronald Eyre: there is no God but God
It is said in Islam that every child is born Muslim by nature: he has the belief in his heart of one God. Over 400 million people profess Islam, and its numbers are said to be growing. In this program we travel to Egypt to explore the Islamic experi...
The long search with Ronald Eyre: the Romanian solution
The Orthodox churches in Eastern Europe seem to be bound to the Communist states in essentially loveless marriages, except in Rumania. The Rumanian Orthodox Church is still seen as an important aspect of Rumania's cultural heritage and ethnic identi...
The long search with Ronald Eyre: the chosen people
What is it that makes a Jew a Jew? In New York, Elie Wiesel, author and survivor of the concentration camps, tries to define it. In London, Nobert Brainin and the Amadeus Quartet carry the argument further, both in words and music. Inevitably the se...