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Television arts documentary. Melvyn Bragg interviews Peter Brook, covering the whole of his career, with specific reference to the production of The Mahabharata, but also including rare extracts from the...
Television arts documentary. Ken Dodd talks to Melvyn Bragg about his career and theories of comedy. Includes Dodd in performance at Manchester Palace Theatre, and reproducing his ‘straight’ role as...
Radio programme. Presenter Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Frank Kermode, Professor/poet Phillis Levin, and Professor Jonathan Bate discuss the Sonnet and its poetic relevance. What is it about the Sonnet...
Radio programme. Presenter Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Frank Kermode, director Michael Bogdanov, and Professor Germaine Greer discuss the work of Shakespeare. Does Ben Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare...
Radio series in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced modern times. In this episode Bragg discusses Shakespeare’s treatment of what to Elizabethan...
Melvyn Bragg and his guests Jonathan Bate, Catherine Steel and Patrick Gray discuss Shakespeare’s versions of Roman history in Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and parts of Antony and Cleopatra.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan and Katherine Lewis discuss Shakespeare’s versions of history, starting with the English Plantagenets, covering the eight plays produced from Richard...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode broadcaster Melvyn Bragg chooses a speech from King Lear (Act 3 Scene 2) as the piece of...
Radio programme. Together with guests Professor George Steiner and Professor Catherine Belsey, presenter Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the genre of tragedy and examines whether we (still) have a...
Arts anthology series presented by Melvyn Bragg. A record of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s regional tour in 1979. Follows the Company on tour from Redruth in Cornwall to Stirling in Scotland with...