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Winner of 3 Emmy Awards these exceptional animated stories have been designed to introduce children and young adults to some Shakespeare's most popular works. Each play has been animated in its own unique style by the exceptional talents of the leading directors of Russia's Christmas Films. Actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company and stars of stage and screen, including Antony Sher, Joss Ackland and Jenny Agutter, provide voices for the characters which were recorded and produced by BBC Wales. In Russia, art and animation has long been used as a veiled form of satire, education and political protest. This has inspired scores of Russian animators to develop fascinating and highly individual techniques, a prolific kaleidoscope of styles from which the animation artists were chosen for these stories of Shakespeare-The Animated Tales. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
David Holt
UK
Best series:
Cracker (1993) (series)
Mr. Selfridge (2013) (series)
Percy the Park Keeper (2000) (series)
![Christopher Benjamin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/396/161396231_651bd5.jpg)
Christopher Benjamin
UK
Best series:
Yes, Prime Minister (1986) (series)
Pride and Prejudice (1995) (series)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986) (series)
![Menna Trussler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/140/161140634_2c4da1.jpg)
Menna Trussler
UK
Best series:
Little Britain (2003) (series)
Torchwood (2006) (series)
Come Fly with Me (2010) (series)
![William Rushton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/445/161445735_4e6cb8.jpg)
William Rushton
UK
Best series:
The Persuaders! (1971) (series)
Muzzy in Gondoland (1986) (series)
Ivor Roberts
UK
Best series:
Yes, Minister (1980) (series)
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
Death of an Expert Witness (1983) (series)
Sally Dexter
UK
Best series:
Genius (2017) (series)
Poldark (2015) (series)
Hotel Babylon (2006) (series)
![Philip Voss](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/477/161477727_fa0407.jpg)
Philip Voss
UK
Best series:
Vicious (2013) (series)
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
Let Them Eat Cake (1999) (series)
![Suzanne Bertish](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/725/161725901_6ed366.jpg)
Philip Bond
UK
Best series:
Only Fools and Horses.... (1981) (series)
The Saint (1962) (series)
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
![Peter Gunn](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/239/162239277_6595e4.jpg)
Peter Gunn
UK
Best series:
Skins (2007) (series)
The Way We Live Now (2001) (series)
Cold Feet (1997) (series)
Dinah Stabb
Best series:
The Widower (2013) (series)
Waking the Dead (2000) (series)
MI-5 (2002) (series)
Peter Woodthorpe
UK
Best series:
Only Fools and Horses.... (1981) (series) - actor, a.f.
Sherlock Holmes (1964) (series)
Wagner (1983) (series)
Gerald James
UK
Best series:
All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (series)
![Malcolm Storry](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/691/163691505_d3c5a7.jpg)
Malcolm Storry
UK
Best series:
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986) (series)
Jekyll (2007) (series)
The English (2022) (series)
Philip Franks
UK
Best series:
Absolutely Fabulous (1992) (series)
Foyle's War (2002) (series)
The Resident (2018) (series)
Eiry Thomas
Best series:
Sherlock (2010) (series)
Torchwood (2006) (series)
Rillington Place (2016) (series)
Simon Ludders
Best series:
I'm Alan Partridge (1997) (series)
Broadchurch (2013) (series)
Doctor Who (2005) (series)
Anthony Jackson
UK
Best series:
The Storyteller (1987) (series)
Mind Your Language (1977) (series)
Only Fools and Horses.... (1981) (series)