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Radio arts review programme presented by Tom Sutcliffe. Director Greg Doran and Shakespeare experts Emma Smith, Farah Karim-Cooper and Chris Laoutaris mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the...
Video recording of a play based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall, and directed by Declan Donnellan. Shannon Taylor is Viola de Lesseps and Luke Humphrey...
Video podcast. Why animals are everywhere in Shakespeare’s language. Only two actual animals definitely appear in Shakespeare’s plays: Crabbe in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and a hungry bear in The...
Verdi wrote two versions of his opera Macbeth, one in 1847 and the 1865 Paris version. Tom Rosenthal looks at the differences between the 1847 and 1865 compositions and compares the two librettos...
Topical arts magazine series presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon. Includes a c7 minute item, presented by Clemency Burton-Hill, on Juliet and her Romeo, a version of Romeo and Juliet at Bristol Old Vic Theatre...
Short. A satire on the film industry as if it existed in Elizabethan times. Film director William Shakespeare shoots HAMLET in one reel and in one take. When he screens his 15-minute film for the studio...
Radio arts programme. In the first item Tom Sutcliffe and guests Sarfraz Manzoor, Natalie Haynes and Peter Kemp discuss David Tennant’s role in Richard II in Gregory Doran’s first production as Artistic...
Radio programme on the week’s cultural events. In a ten-minute review, presenter Tom Sutcliffe discusses Gregory Doran’s musical version of The Merry Wives of Windsor, staged at Stratford-upon-Avon for...
Music magazine series. Tom Service explores the music in Shakespeare’s plays and Shakespearean music from the BBC archives, with composer Gary Carpenter and theatre historian Sarah Lenton.
Complete performance of the play by Tom Stoppard.
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