Past Productions: 1964
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Hamlet has been told that the ghost of his dead father has been seen on the battlements. The ghost has been dramatised in many different ways and in this production it exists only as a voice.
Filmed on the actual location of the play
Hamlet meets Horatio
Hamlet meets the ghost
'To be, or not to be...'
The closet scene
1963 BBC 2 Monitor
Orson Welles in discussion
Derek Jacobi and Patrick Stewart play Hamlet and Claudius
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