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Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode, timed for Valentine’s day, looks at couple in Shakespeare plays. Guests include Christian Conn (STC Affiliated Artist); Dr. Frances...
The Renaissance Theatre Company production of Twelfth Night first staged at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith and directed for the stage by Kenneth Branagh. A wintry studio setting determines the tone for...
Television anthology arts series. Alan Yentob presents a documentary about three actors who are preparing to play Hamlet. Welsh actor Wayne Cater is directed by Michael Bogdanov for the Wales Theatre...
Combined book and audio CD. Includes performances by John Cleese as Petruchio (BBC Television Shakespeare series), Peter O’Toole as Petruchio (Living Shakespeare series), Roger Allam and Frances Barber...
Educational television. West Berkshire English consultant Frances Gregory believes teachers should teach Shakespeare with plays, not just books, to encourage pupils to write more confidently. She believes...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1984 production of The Merchant of Venice. Directed by John Caird with Ian McDiarmid as Shylock and Frances Tomelty as Portia.
Based on the memoir of the actor Peter Turner (played by Jamie Bell), Annette Bening plays the Hollywood movie star Gloria Grahame with whom Turner had a relationship during the latter period of her life....
An adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew set in the countryside of contemporary Suffolk, aiming to retain the primacy of the text while emphasising entertainment, immediacy and modernity.
CBC radio adaptation of the play by W.H. Rockett. The play concerns a couple on the verge of breaking up, and the psychological games they play: the couple are Ariel and Sycorax. It also satirises certain...
Radio 3 poetry series. Christopher Ricks explores some short poems worth remembering. The first episode focuses on Frances Cornford’s ‘Childhood’ and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73.
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