Series 7

Episodes

• 1. King Lear

  21 March 1998

  Richard Eyre's film version of his award-winning Royal National Theatre production of Shakespeare's King Lear, showing in the Performance strand and starring Ian Holm. After disinheriting the youngest of his three daughters because she refuses to pander to his desire for flattery, King Lear suffers the torments of rage, humiliation and madness at the hands of his two eldest daughters before arriving at a painful self-knowledge.