BBC Television Shakespeare the abandoned production of "Much Ado About Nothing". It was repeated on 22 June 1981. The "Prefaces to Shakespeare" episode for "The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight" was presented by Donald Sinden, who had played Henry in a 1969 RCS production directed by Trevor Nunn. The "Shakespeare in Perspective" episode was presented by novelist and literary scholar Anthony Burgess. Cast The week prior to the screening of this episode in both the UK and the US, the first-season episode "King Richard the Second" was repeated as a lead-in to the trilogy. The episode also began
Much Ado talents I have found is his ability to write music in the style befitting the age his work is set, as MUCH ADO so admirably demonstrates. Paul McGann's singing voice adds style. and panache to his solo numbers (If I Could Write A Sonnet and The Strange Affliction Called Love) as well as a pleasing accompaniment to the redoubtable Claire Moore In Disdain" and Then Kill For Me. Of course, as always Claire Moore gives a breathtaking performance with (among others) I'll Never Marry and How Can This Be, but then that lady can do no wrong in my book.