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Radio programme in which Gary Younge explores what the BBC archives reveal about four boxers who span the century - Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. Includes a clip of Ali (formerly...
Radio programme celebrating the four hundreth anniversary of the performance of King Lear, the new play offered to King James I and his guests at Whitehall Palace on Boxing Day 1606. Presenter Francine Stock...
Brief documentary. David Tennant looks back on playing Hamlet in Greg Doran’s award-winning 2008 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He talks about his approach to the part, performing opposite...
Television adaptation by Michael Hogan and William Nicholls. The design and performances reflect the commedia dell’arte tradition.The stage is virtually bare with clowns carrying on props as required, and...
Musical comedy updating The Taming of the Shrew. Pamela Beren (Thelma Todd) is beautiful and spoilt, ferocious and shrewish, her fiery nature causing fear in her father, brother and the servants. Tom Daly, a...
Episode twelve in a fifteen-part televised series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies), effectively presenting a chronological history of British...
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