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The third and final programme on Othello presented by Dr Frank C. Baxter. Baxter analyses the fourth and fifth acts of the play discussing humour, poetry and the use of song; he also considers the burden of...
Video recording of Ong Ken Sen’s Lear Dreaming. The story is set in the context of King Lear’s sleep of death, as he reminisces on the folly of his ways which led him to lose his kingdom to his daughter.
Radio adaptation of a play written by Ronald Harwood which is based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. An actor-manager of the old school takes a Shakespearean company...
Transmitted live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Olivia Fuchs’s production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is presented by Stephanie Hughes. Richard Hickox conducts...
A video revision guide for GCSE National Curriculum Key Stage 4 English, in which Peter Andrews, Head of English at King Alfred School London and two of his students, Liberty Moss and Ben Farleigh, describe...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted for broadcasting and produced by Cedric Messina. With Jimmy Edwards as Falstaff. The choir of the Ealing Grammar School for Boys is conducted by John Railton....
Last of a five-part series of radio essays exploring Shakespeare’s portrayal of love and how his work affects perceptions of love. In this episode writer and journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown recalls how her...
Radio broadcast. Michael Boyd discusses the overwhelming success of his recent history play cycle in both Stratford and London, his vision for ensemble theatre making and the future of the Royal Shakespeare...
The second of three programmes on Macbeth presented by Dr Frank C. Baxter. Baxter analyses the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth believing that Macbeth has a deep and vivid imagination that envisions...
Dr Frank C. Baxter presents a history of western drama from the classic Greek to the English morality play, seen as a forerunner to Elizabethan drama. Baxter argues that the public theatre developed out of a...
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