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

William Shakespeare was born 407 years ago today in Stratford-upon-Avon, and died there on the same day 52 years later.
This film goes behind the scenes of the RSC in Stratford to watch the various stages of a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. It also explores Shakespeare's life and writings against the setting of Stratford and the Warwickshire countryside.

With John Barton, Christopher Gable, Roger Howells, Ben Kingsley, Estelle Kohler, Christopher Morley, Trevor Nunn, Ian Richardson, Barry Stanton
Written and directed by Lorna Pegram
A BBC Tv/Patria Pictures co-production
(Radio Times People: page 5)