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First in a series of 30-minute broadcasts highlighting scenes from Shakespeare’s plays performed by contemporary leading actors. This episode focuses on Romeo and Juliet. The series is arranged by Clemence...
Second in a series of 30-minute broadcasts showcasing scenes from Shakespeare’s plays performed by leading actors of the time. This episode focuses on three history plays, Henry V, Henry IV, Part 1 and...
Fourth of twelve programmes in which all Shakespeare sonnets are recited by various actors. The programme is introduced by Rayner Heppenstall. Marius Goring reads Sonnets 33 to 42.
Live sound recording of Peter Hall’s 1988 production of Cymbeline with Geraldine James as Imogen and Tony Church as Cymbeline.
Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli explore how much George Peele may have contributed to the composition of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus.
Radio programme in which Winston Churchill’s nephew, Giles Romilly, talks about some of the impressions left by reading Shakespeare’s plays during his solitary confinement as a POW at Tittmoning castle,...
Theatre historians, Farah Karim-Cooper and Tiffany Stern discuss the special effects deployed on stage in order to enhance the live experience within Elizabethan threatres.
Radio programme in which presenter J. Isaacs considers what solid addition to our knowledge has been made by research in the various fields of Shakespearean scholarship.
Neil Aldrich recites Shakespeare’s sonnets, and other works, speculating about the recitative convention employed in the 17th century. The delivery is rap-like, very different from the performance norm....
29 of Shakespeare’s sonnets delivered by four young people (collectively and individually) in pastoral settingsas well as at the breakfast table, over the telephone, and as a stand-up comedy routine....