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Documentary about Auckland University’s Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream presented by an actor in Shakespearean costume. Director Christian Penny talks about her wish to make the...
A weekday morning show of news and human interest stories with interviews hosted by Peter Gzowski. In this edition Peter Gwoski interviews Stanley Wells, co-editor of Shakespeare’s The Complete Works...
Literary critic Harold Bloom talks to Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins about his new book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human. Bloom explains his view that Shakespeare, through his writing, created the...
Five young scholars re-evaluate the playwrights work. The third programme is delivered by Joan Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Loughborough University. Fitzpatrick explains her new...
Radio programme. Poet and musician Musa Okwonga explains how Shakespeare’s Othello mirrored his experience of isolation as a young black British-Ugandan growing up in a predominantly white environment....
Patrick Stewart and director Rupert Goold discuss their production of Macbeth with hosts Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins. The production was first staged at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester before...
Natalie Abrahami, Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, tells Sophie Reynolds about the first act of Pericles, which she directed for the Regents Park Open Air Theatre in 2011. Her brief was to direct a...
Feature film about working class barrowman redeemed by the love of a good woman. Bill, the bloke, decides to reform his drinking and gambling ways after he has been jailed for hitting a policeman during a...
Television documentary that follows conductor Leonard Bernstein as he records, over four days, the first complete recording of West Side Story. Filmed in a New York recording studio with a pick-up orchestra,...
Radio broadcast. Matt Lucas explores Shakespeare’s comedies and examines whether they have an influence on current humour. Today we interpret comedy from a different perspective than 400 years ago - comedy...
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