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A production aimed at families and younger people (11-18 year olds) and designed to support the teaching of English in the National Curriculum, as well as those studying international curricular.
Fiction short. Privacy Robson, a weak man, takes advice from his friend Florian and decides to tame his feisty wife. He initiates divorce proceedings, pretends to have a girlfriend, and refuses to eat...
Radio programme. A two-part series in which Humphrey Carpenter investigates the attraction of Shakespeare for musicians and composers. Part 1 claims that Shakespeare’s works have inspired over 20,000...
A version of Macbeth choreographed by Vladimir Vasilyev and Sally Gilpin danced by the Bolshoi Ballet to music by Kirill Mochanov conducted by Fuat Mansurov. The ballet ends with the three witches luring...
Radio broadcast. Louise Swan surveys film adaptations of Shakespeare, examining the work of directors such as Laurence Olivier, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Derek Jarman, Kozintsev, Max Reinhardt,...
Subtitled ‘An enquiry into the sources of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest’, the radio play by J.I. M. Stewart (who also wrote under the pseudonym Michael Innes) focuses on a dispute between Peterkin,...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir talks with scholars and theatre artists about the social and cultural forces that came together to create outdoor Shakepeare festivals. Contributors...
Radio adaptation of King Lear by Archibald MacLeish. Narrated by Conway Tearle. Thomas Mitchell is Lear.
This live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Verity Sharp, features Oliver Knussen’s 7-minute sequence Ophelia Dances which evokes Ophelia’s perturbation at her rejection by Hamlet, her...
Interlude based on scenes from Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, in which Falstaff roisters off to battle. Arranged and produced for radio by Peter Creswell. With D. A. Clarke-Smith as Falstaff.