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Podcast created, produced and hosted by American actors Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp, two self-confessed ‘Shakespeare nerds’ who devote multiple episode to analysing the Bard’s work. In this...
Radio broadcast. Berlioz’s opera. The title roles are sung by Jane Gilbert and Gordon Gietz. The Canadian Opera Company Chorus and Orchestra are conducted by Richard Bradshaw.
Feature film with a plot inspired by King Lear. A self-respecting wise old man decides to divide his property among his family. He settles down with his youngest son and soon realises that without his wealth...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the challenges and consolations of old age. An extract from Cymbeline ('Fear no more’) are read by actors Barbara Jefford and...
Music-hall entertainer Bransby Williams filmed enacting scenes of a character from youth to old age. Williams had enjoyed a stage success with this performance.
Radio programme exploring how actors come to terms with ageing, and draws parallels with how old age is portrayed on stage and screen. From characters like Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave via...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev discusses race and Blackness in Elizabethan England with Dr. Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College).
Radio programme. Sian Phillips talks to Jane Garvey about playing Juliet at the age of 76 in Bristol Old Vic’s production of Juliet and Her Romeo, directed by Tom Morris. Developed since 1997 in...
Sonnet 127 read in costume by Ben Kingsley, followed by a discussion of the sonnet by Dr A L Rowse who expounds his theory about the identity of the Dark Lady. The sonnet is then performed again in light of...
Radio play written by Anton Gill. The age old question: who wrote Shakespeare becomes part police investigation that alternates between the sixteenth and the twentieth century.
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