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Radio programme. Together with guests Professor George Steiner and Professor Catherine Belsey, presenter Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the genre of tragedy and examines whether we (still) have a...
Audio podcast. Mfoniso Udofia explores the hard questions raised by her brutal translation of Othello, now adapted as part of the ‘Play On Shakespeare’ project to create more contemporary and accessible...
An experimental short, shot on Super 8, by amateur British filmmaker Reg Lancaster. The film is inspired by the public sector workers’ strike in 1978-79 which brought about the downfall of Callaghan’s...
A drama exploring the ‘love triangle’ described in Shakespeare’s sonnets - the identity of the Dark Lady, the Fair Youth and Mr WH. Writer William Boyd comments, "the lustful, misogynistic tone of the...
Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. Lawson interviews James Shapiro, whose book Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (2010) looks at the various conspiracy theories surrounding the...
Adaptation of Twelfth Night. After she has had to flee from her home, Viola finds herself in Illyria, a small town in the middle of nowhere. She hides her identity by pretending to be a boy named Cesario....
US talk show. Morgan Freeman, Gloria Foster and Joseph Papp are interviewed by Phyliss Haynes and Mary Helen McPhillips about the Black Hispanic Shakespeare Company - its non-traditional casting, audience...
Educational series. One in a twelve-part series of films made by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (now TV Ontario). The aim was to relate ‘Shakespeare’s timeless ideas and understanding...
Series on literature presented by Robert Robinson. This episode includes an item in which Robinson introduces Judith Cook’s book Women in Shakespeare. An interview with historian and literary scholar A.L....
Documentary for schools (Key Stage 4) exploring our ability to manipulate and change identity, and our love of public confession. This third episode looks at the human fascination with masks, disguises and...
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