One of the most powerful dramas ever commissioned by the BBC. A star-studded cast - including Derek Jacobi as Claudius, John Hurt as Caligula, and Brian Blessed as Augustus - all give five-star ...

In conversation with Mark Lawson, Sir Derek Jacobi looks back over a career that has spanned half a century. It was the role of the damaged Roman emperor Claudius, in the 1976 BBC television drama ...

Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Why does Hamlet not take the chance to kill Claudius when he gets ... This is what Hamlet, played by Derek Jacobi, has to say.

wedding to his uncle Claudius (Sir Derek Jacobi). In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, who he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot, the most ...