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Radio broadcast of King Lear adapted and directed by Orson Welles. The announcer is John Brown. Welles is in every scene and includes all Lears’s big speeches, some of which are incorporated into one long...
A discussion between Prof. John Russell Brown, University of Sussex, and Dr J R Mulryne, University of Edinburgh. Reverse of tape contains ‘Patterns and Character in A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
Continues the examination of Isabella’s character, looking at Act III, Scene i in which she visits her brother Claudio in jail in order to tell him that he must die. Director John Russell-Brown works...
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 series. Tony Robinson reads Pete Brown’s history of British pubs as seen through the story of one London inn, the George in Southwark, said to be the one-time local of Chaucer, Dickens and...
Continues the theme of the first ‘Hamlet’ workshop by further examining the relationship between the soliloquies and the dynamic political moments of the play. Director John Russell Brown works on Act II...
Comedy radio show. This episode features the world premiere of Romeo and Juliet for telephone. No further information found [April 2010].
A workshop investigating Hamlet’s character. Director John Russell Brown and actor David Yelland work through the various interpretations of the soliloquiess, and examines how they are related to other...
Detective series set in the 1950s, loosely inspired by the character created by GK Chesterton. Father Brown (played by Mark Williams) offers to play the Friar in a production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado...
Radio discussion. Jonathan Bate and his guests Michael Dobson, Peter Ackroyd and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown examine the role Shakespeare has played in the national consciousness and debate what England meant to...
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