Donald Sinden gives the last of six talks introducing the season of Shakespeare's plays on BBC2. Henry VIII
'Henry is one of those few historical characters whose appearance is known to every man in the street, because of the endless reproductions of Holbein's portrait. There he stands, this great bulk of a man, his feet astride, hands on hips, with vast hunched shoulders. All the poor actor can do is to try to look like that portrait and therein lies the problem.'
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
(Henry VIII is on BBCl tomorrow at 8.0 pm) long wave only