2016
Isle of Wight Festival in October in which he combined readings from King Lear in Brooklyn together with anecdotes from his career.
Roald Dahl 100th birthday event in which he read from Fantastic Mr Fox.
2014
Hundred Years War at the Ledbury Poetry Festival. Click on this link to listen to a recording.
2012
Shakespeare’s Poetry, Poetry in the City, King’s Place. You can view a brief excerpt of the evening at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPJx4uYHdco
http://www.mashpedia.com/videoplayer.php?q=KyTjzaHXvcc
2010
“I take your hand in mine”, Lady Hall Margaret College, Oxford based on the letters between Anton Chekhov and Olga Kniper.
2008
Great Eccentrics … and the eccentricities of the Great, Winchester Festival
2007
Two appearances at the Frome Festival: Words and Music for a Midsummer Evening at the Merlin Theatre, and Mirth, Melancholy: Music from a Golden Age at the Great Hall, Longleat
2006
Ringing the Bells for Betjeman. A Centenary Celebration. Stratford-Upon-Avon Poetry Festival
Igor Fest – Les Noces & Oedipus Rex, Symphony Hall, Birmingham
2005
No Offence – An Evening of Readings and Performance of Controversial Works Through the Ages,
English PEN, Tricycle Theatre, London.
Strings in the Air, The Rudolf Kempe Society, The Other Place
Great Eccentrics … and the eccentricities of the Great, Winchester Festival
Robert Lowell: A Memoir and A Reading, Stratford-Upon-Avon Poetry Festival
2004
Women in Byzantium, an evening of words and music
Sir John Gielgud, The Centenary Gala
Parthenon Lost, Oxford Greek Festival
2003
The Greek Trilogy at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
2002
The Greek Trilogy at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
John Clare poetry, Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival
Some Desperate Glory, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket, London
2000
Claudius in The Ghost of Hamlet at the Guildhall Great Hall in London
Men In Scarlet in a Son et Lumiere performed at the Royal Chelsea Hospital
1999
Winchester Festival: The Norfolk Connection, starring Michael Pennington, Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Paul Moriarty. Narrated, devised and directed by John Miller.
(An Historical Entertainment from Richard III and Bosworth Field through to the imprisonment and executions of the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I), Millennial Fringe Poetry, Stratford-upon-Avon
Versailles, The Other Place
1997
BBC Proms 1997: Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex
1982
Benedict in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict at the Royal Festival Hall
Von Weber and Mendelssohn in the Whitbread Music of London Concert at the Barbican Hall
To Cambridge With Love in aid of the Cambridge Arts Theatre Trust at the Barbican Theatre
1981
Pleasure and Repentance and The Hollow Crown for the RSC at the Fortune Theatre
1980
Sights of Elsinore, Stratford -upon-Avon Poetry Festival
1979
He That Plays the King; The Hollow Crown; Pleasure and Repentance
and The Biko Inquest all for the RSC in Newcastle
1977
Shall I Compare Thee?, RSC, Dovecot Arts Centre, Stockton on Tees
1976
The 1890’s, Stratford-Upon-Avon Poetry Festival
1975
The Hollow Crown and Pleasure and Repentance – an international tour for the RSC
1968
It’s No Go On The Merry-go-Round, A Poetry Show About Crisis at the Young Vic
1966
Stark in a reading of The Investigation by Peter Weiss
The following are Reading Programmes performed at various venues over the years.
The Polmear Ambache Duo
Programmes juxtaposing readings of poetry and prose with music:
‘Mozart’ Music and letters from Mozart’s early and middle life.
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