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First part of a televised adapation of a play for children. Robert Atkins, who wrote the script for the play and also stars as Bottom, introduces and explains the play. Part 2 was was televised a week later,...
Radio play written by Henry Reed and produced for broadcasting by Douglas Cleverdon. Set in Italy in 1593, this dramatic speculation sends William Shakespeare (Marius Goring) to Ferrara, Verona, Padua,...
BBC Radio 3 arts series. In this edition, part of the BBC Poetry Season, Philip Dodd previews Radio 3’s Sonnets Day, which celebrates the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s Sonnets....
Radio ‘interpretation’ of Shakespeare’s late play by Raymond Raikes with Norman Shelley as Prospero. The music is composed by Anthony Bernard who also conducts the London Chamber Orchestra and Singers.
Fourth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences...
Documentary made for schools. Compares and contrasts different styles and type of humour through the ages. Explains the elements of comedy used by Shakespeare including the use of mischief, power of the...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 29 in the series. If you were to make a list of the people who have left an enduring imprint on how the world interprets, understands, and receives...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted by Val Gielgud and E.A. Harding. With John Gielgud as Prospero, Leslie French as Ariel and Angela Baddeley as Miranda. The BBC Theatre Orchestra is conducted by...
Natalie Abrahami, Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, tells Sophie Reynolds about the first act of Pericles, which she directed for the Regents Park Open Air Theatre in 2011. Her brief was to direct a...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. A comment occuring late in this podcast : "Without Bacon and Shakespeare, we might not have won the war in the Pacific," states Bill Sherman, head of research at...
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