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Twice-weekly television news magazine programme. In this episode Ludovic Kennedy interviews Peggy Ashcroft. In her first television interview Dame Peggy speaks of her unease at the way stage drama translates...
Radio feature. Author and historian Jerry Brotton investigates the history of relations between England and the Islamic world during the early modern period, a complex alliance that he finds dramatised in...
Musical fantasy. Struggling with his homophobic classmates and community, Timothy’s fading spirit becomes brighter when his eccentric drama teacher, Ms. Tebbit, accepts his differences and casts him as...
Broadcaster Vincent Kane retells the stories of Shakespeare’s best known plays and finds contemporary resonances. In episode 1 he retells Hamlet.
Kate McDuffie looks at SHE’S THE MAN (2006), a contemporary update of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night - and doesn’t like what she finds. She focuses on deviations from the play, the removal of a Malvolio...
Musical fantasy feature film based on Gustafson’s 20 minute short FAIRIES (2003). Struggling with his homophobic classmates and community, Timothy’s fading spirit becomes brighter when his eccentric...
Broadcaster Vincent Kane retells the stories of Shakespeare’s best known plays and finds contemporary resonances. Episode 3 retells Romeo and Juliet.
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...
Death seeks Hamlet and finds him.
Broadcaster Vincent Kane retells the stories of Shakespeare’s best known plays and finds contemporary resonances. The play retold in episode 2 is not known.
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