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As part of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s sonnets, 14 sonnets are read by Sir Ian McKellen as drop-ins through the day’s programmes, starting off with the 7am BREAKFAST...
Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli explore the way theatre works were written in Shakespeare’s time and how a variety of plays, whole or in part, have been attributed to him...
Video recording of Jonathan Miller’s 1989 production of King Lear for the Old Vic with Eric Porter in the title role.
Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Simon Godwin. This episode examines the character of Sir John Falstaff. Participants include: Edward Gero, Rosa Joshi and Dr. Jeffrey R. Wilson.
Fifth of twelve programmes in which all Shakespeare sonnets are recited by various actors. The programme is introduced by Rayner Heppenstall. Marius Goring reads Sonnets 43 to 55.
Barbara Bogaev talks to Jonathan Croall about his new book, Performing Hamlet: Actors in the Modern Age, which examines 43 celebrated productions of Hamlet.
Radio talk by Betram L. Joseph on his research into the technique of Elizabethan acting. The focus of his talk is on "the close connection between the stagecraft of Shakespeare’s players and the...
Radio programme that attempts to trace what is really known about William Shakespeare’s life. With comments from "literary sleuths and historians, biographers and directors who trace the story of the Bard...
Sonnet no. 76 / Alfred Janson (6:01) - Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Nils Lindberg (2:58) - Fancies / Sven-Eric Johanson (13:59) - Songs of Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest (11:30) -...
Video recording, using a single camera, of the main rehearsal performance of Gerd Heinz’s Romeo and Juliet staged for the Schauspielhaus, Zurich. Ernst Sigrit and Ursula Andermatt in the title roles.
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