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First 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 Margaret Drabble explores how our concepts of love...
Radio programme. Themed on the subject of different states of rapture, this episode’s Word and Music features Eleanor Bron reciting Sonnet no. 75 "So are you to my thoughts as food to life" as a poetic...
Professor J. B. Broadbent, University of East Anglia, discusses the plays.
Radio broadcast. Lewis Nkose interviews the South African poet Raymond Kunene about the influence of Shakespeare on African poets.
BBC Radio 4’s current affairs programme presented by John Humphreys and James Naughtie. This edition features Ian McMillan’s poem, ‘Shakespeare rules Britain’, written specially for the part of the...
A series of four films using still drawings from a number of artists to accompany poetry readings. Sponsored by the British Film Institute and produced by Halas and Batchelor for the Festival of Britain,...
Current affairs radio series with John Humphrys. This edition reports on the ‘new’ court poem ‘To The Queen’. The poem has recently been given scholarly imprimateur and included in the new edition of...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the challenges and consolations of old age. An extract from Cymbeline ('Fear no more’) are read by actors Barbara Jefford and...
Radio programme. Themed on the subject of time, this episode’s ‘Word and Music’ features Greta Scacchi reciting Sonnet no. 12 "When I do count the clock that tells the time"; Greg Wise ends the...
Peter Mercer studies the endings of Othello and Macbeth in a manner that resonates backwards through the entire works. He reminds the listener that any group of actors producing and performing drama must use...
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