"Next to God, Shakespeare has created most" - Balzac

To celebrate his birthday, this film visits the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford to see the progress of a production of "The Tempest", and to explore his life and works against the setting of the Warwickshire countryside.
with John Barton, Christopher Gable, Roger Howells, Ben Kingsley, Estelle Kohler, Christopher Motley, Trevor Nunn, Ian Richardson, Barry Stanton

A BBCtv/Partia Picture co-production

(Colour)