Twenty Thousand Hours with Shakespeare, as well as Let Me Play the Lion Too - How to Be an Actor for Faber and Faber. His solo show Sweet William is available as a DVD. Pennington has also worked as a narrator on many TV documentaries. In April 2004 he became the second actor, after Harley Granville-Barker in 1925, to deliver the British Academy's annual Shakespeare lecture. The lecture was entitled Barnadine's Straw: The Devil in Shakespeare's Detail. Personal life In 1964, Pennington married actress Katharine Barker, with whom he had a son, Mark, before they divorced in 1967. Beginning in 1978, when they appeared together in Love's Labour's Lost, he shared a flat with actress Jane Lapotaire in St John's Wood, London, though at the time Lapotaire said they were "just friends". Selected stage credits Richard II (Earl of Salisbury), National Youth Theatre, Apollo Theatre, London, 9–19 August and 30 August - 2 September 1961 Henry IV, Part 2 (Earl of Warwick), National Youth Theatre, Apollo Theatre, London, 22–29 August 1961 Hamlet (title role), ADC Theatre, Cambridge, February 1964 Love's Labour's Lost (Dumaine and understudying Berowne), Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1965 Hamlet (Fortinbras), RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon and Aldwych Theatre, London, 1965 The Judge by John Mortimer, Theatre Royal, Brighton and Cambridge Theatre, London, 1967 Hamlet (Laertes), Round House, London, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York and Huntington Hartford Theatre, Los Angeles, 1969 Three Sisters (Andrei), Cambridge Arts Theatre, 1971 Trelawny of the Wells (Ferdinand Gadd), Cambridge Arts Theatre, 1971 Savages by Christopher Hampton (Crawshaw), Royal Court Theatre and Comedy Theatre, London, 1973 Measure for Measure (Angelo), RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1974 The Tempest (Ferdinand), RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1974 Afore Night Come (Johnny Hobnails), RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1974 Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio), RSC, Straford-upon-Avon, 1976 and Aldwych Theatre, London, 1977 Troilus and Cressida (Hector), RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1976 and Aldwych Theatre, London, 1977 "King Lear" (Edgar), RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon 1976 and Aldwych Theatre London 1977 Destiny by David Edgar (Major Rolfe), RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1976 and Aldwych Theatre, London, 1977 The Way of the World (Mirabell), RSC, Aldwych Theatre, London, 1978 Measure for Measure (the Duke), RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1978 and Aldwych Theatre, London, 1979 Love's Labour's Lost (Berowne), RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1978 and Aldwych Theatre, London, Hippolytus (title role), RSC, Stratford-Upon-Avon, 1978 and The Warehouse, London, 1979 The White Guard (Shervinsky), RSC, Aldwych Theatre, London, 1979 The Shadow of a Gunman (Donal Davoren), RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1980 and The Warehouse, London, 1981 Hamlet