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Centurions

on BBC Radio 3

57: Laurence Olivier : Henry V. The century's greatest actor, producer of definitive filmed Shakespeare and iconic Englishman ... ten years after his death, what is Olivier's cultural legacy? By carefully cutting the theatre text of Henry V, he created a film of patriotic wartime propaganda which still colours our ideas of the Bard. But is it more
Olivier than Shakespeare? And how strong is his influence on British theatre? With the help of Sir Peter Hall and others, Centurions reassesses the career of a man who was once told, "You are England." Producer Lawrence Pollard

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Laurence Olivier
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