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Series on Africa written and presented by Professor Ali A. Mazrui. Episode 6 looks at the history of governance in Africa. Includes an extract (5 mins) in which an actor delivers Mark Antony’s funeral...
Radio series in five parts. Writers from Sierra Leone, Brazil, India, Iran and China explain why a playwright from sixteenth century Stratford resonates so powerfully in their own countries. In this third...
Series on Africa written and presented by Professor Ali A. Mazrui. Episode 4 traces the colonial economic legacy, the development of slavery, and European control of Africa’s natural resources, with...
In 1989 the British Council backed the Cherub Company tour of Ethiopia, Sudan and Zimbabwe with a production of Twelfth Night. Compiled and presented by Paul Copley and Natasha Pyne.
Radio broadcast. Lewis Nkose interviews the South African poet Raymond Kunene about the influence of Shakespeare on African poets.
A radio programme made in honour of Shakespeare’s quartercentenary and compiled and presented by Lewis Nkosi. In the first item, the critic of The Statesman Ronald Bryden speaks about Laurence Olivier’s...
This television production marked the directorial debut of Janet Suzman and was staged in her native South Africa by the Market Theatre of Johannesburg. Casting black actor John Kani in the title role, the...
Radio drama by Nick Warburton. A missing 78 rpm recording of Macbeth creates a tie between three people in war-torn West Africa. Meg, recently arrived in an unnamed part of Africa, is seconded to work at a...
BBC Radio 3’s arts and ideas series offering extended interviews and debate. Marking Shakespeare’s 450th anniversary Janet Suzman talks to Philip Dodd about acting, directing and South African politics.
Television variety charity revue benefiting charitable causes in Great Britain and Africa. Includes a two-minute spoof of Macbeth played as a sitcom. In the living room Mrs Macbeth tells her husband that he...
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