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A 5-part series of scholarly talks on Shakespeare’s history plays. In his final talk R. A. Foakes examines how historical truth is pitted against dramatic truth in John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck and Henry...
Cathy MacDonald finds the Gaelic roots of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and explores the landscape where the real history happened. Cathy discovers that the real King Macbeth was very different to Shakespeare’s...
Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week Mary Fissel looks at the history of the caesarean section (crucial to the plot of Macbeth).
Melvyn Bragg and his guests Jonathan Bate, Catherine Steel and Patrick Gray discuss Shakespeare’s versions of Roman history in Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and parts of Antony and Cleopatra.
Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week she talks to Paul Craddock, author of Spare Parts, about the history of transplant surgery...
BBC Radio 3 arts series. Philip Dodd talks to John Barton and Professor Michael Dobson about the staging of Shakespeare’s history plays throughout history. The impetus to the debate is the production of...
BBC television quiz show. In this episode one contestant chose as their specialist subject ‘The History Plays of Shakespeare’. Question master - John Humphrys.
Pre-school history series. Grandad Harvey takes Asher on a journey of discovery to find out what life was like for a child during Elizabethan times. Dressing up in magnificent Elizabethan costumes, they...
Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week she talks to Jared Kirby and Seth Duerr about the history of staging and choreographing...
Radio adaptation of Henry V and the first history play produced in the Radio Guild series. No details of cast known (2007).
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