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Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the theme of mirrors and reflections, variously showing the mirror as a symbol of vanity, self-examination and the limits of human understanding....
Radio programme marking 85 years of weather forecasting on the BBC with poetry and music. The programme includes an excerpt from Shakespeare’s King Lear ('Blow wind and crack your cheeks’) read by Mark...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of ancient Greece. The second part of the programme opens with programme an excerpt from the opening to Troilus and Cressida read by...
Radio series showcasing feature reports and discussions on cultural subjects. For a poet and playwright whose virtuosic way with words continue to dominate English literature, there’s an extraordinary and...
Online videoblog hosted by the ‘Dark Lady’ alias E-Verse Contessa Jessica who offers a lexical compendium of words that Shakespeare coined from A-Z. Each weekly blog posting focuses on a different...
Radio programme. Themed on the subject of time, this episode’s ‘Word and Music’ features Greta Scacchi reciting Sonnet no. 12 "When I do count the clock that tells the time"; Greg Wise ends the...
Reflecting on his long and varied career in show business; British comedian, Ken Dodd, describes his forays into Shakespeare. Fellow actor and friends describe his talent for Shakespearean theatre focussing...
Radio programme on the theme of different times of the day. This episode ends with Romeo and Juliet debating whether the bird they can hear is a nightingale or a lark (III v) that heralds the beginning of a...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the warrior, from classical heroes to more contemporary soldiers. The programme opens with extracts from Henry V, read by and Don...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of time and the rhythm of life. Actress Greta Scacchi reads the Shakespeare Sonnet "When I do count the clock that tells the time",...
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