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First of six talks on London by journalist Alan Ivimey, who wrote and lectured on London. According to a letter from a listener published in Radio Times on September 3, 1937, the talk somewhat misleadingly...
As part of the Shakespeare 400 celebrations, Professor Russ McDonald explores how Shakespeare’s work has influenced composers. He focuses on Dvorak’s Othello overture which was performed by the London...
Radio series which broadcast extracts of plays staged in London’s theatres. This edition includes Vanessa Redgrave as Rosalind and Ian Bannen as Orlando in Act III, sc ii of As You Like It. The RSC...
First of a four-part radio series, written and presented by Charles Chilton, examining four centuries of London life through music and literature of times. In this portrait, "Chilton describes the city and...
Documentary/travelogue visiting 18 sites associated with William Shakespeare including the Tower of London, St Paul’s Cathedral and Middle Temple in London and the King Edward VI Grammar School and Anne...
Act III of Verdi’s opera relayed from The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.
A visit to the National Theatre, London to see performers prepare for the Company’s 2009 production of All’s Well That Ends Well directed by Marianne Elliott.
Video of the first lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate discusses Shakespeare’s childhood, when he learned London, and his...
Short video by J. Draper, London AV content creator and tour guide, in which she explores changing modes relating to sexuality and identity and possible clues to Shakespeare’s own orientation.
Radio broadcast. Writer Iain Sinclair walks the streets of London in the company of historians, scholars and archaeologists, seeking out Shakespeare’s city in the London of today. He visits the court, the...
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