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This live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Fiona Talkington, brings together two key themes: Shakespeare and Sibelius. The concert programme starts with Sibelius’s complete incidental music...
Brazilian soap opera. Romantic comedy loosely re-working the themes of The Taming of the Shrew. Set in Rio de Janiero, the soap tells the story of a 20-year-old independent woman and Petruchio who believes...
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.
Radio broadcast. Verdi’s opera broadcast live from the Colieseum and presented by Andrew Lyle. Malcolm Donnelly sings the title role. The English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra are conducted by Mark...
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.
Feature film version of The Tempest with Helen Mirren as Prospera.
Radio broadcast. In this two-part programme Professor Michael Dobson explores the history of outdoor Shakespeare productions. The second episode (30/07/2007) focuses on the amateur theatre company.
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,...
A radio anthology on the English setting and English character as portrayed in the plays of Shakespeare. Includes performances by Abraham Sofaer, Cherry Cottrell, and others. With commentary by G. H. W....
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