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Schools radio broadcast. The 2-part programme in the series Good Writing is introduced by Douglas R. Alkin. The producer and the actors discuss the theme and characters of the play. The second episode...
Radio broadcast. Shakespeare scholar Islam Issa highlights a new civic pride that’s encouraging the people of Birmingham to realise the significance of their city’s unique Shakespearean legacy....
Radio programme presented by Farquharson Small on the history of the Old Vic Theatre, its two female managers, Emma Cons (acting manager 1898-1912) and Lilian Baylis (manager 1912-37), and producer-director...
Radio talk by BBC Productions Director Val Gielgud on the making of the recent broadcast version of Macbeth (12/3/1933; see separate entry) for which he was the joint producer. Gielgud discusses current...
Radio version of Dryden’s play of the same name (1678). Based on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Dryden’s blank verse take on the story focuses on the clash between the personal and political. In...
Radio programme in which Asian American writer Zulfikar Ghose talks about producing Shakespeare in Bombay, his production of Hamlet, and actor/producer Shasi Kapoor’s plans to start the first Indian...
Radio talk in which Michael McOwan looks at some of the challenges presented by modern productions of Shakespeare. McOwan, a producer of both modern and classical plays, discusses difficulties that may arise...
Reflecting on his travels and encounters around the Arab world, ‘New Generation Thinker’ Islam Issa (Birmingham City University) discusses how canonical English writers (Shakespeare and Milton) creep...
Podcast. In this edition, Dr Varsha Panjwani interviews BBC producer Andrea Smith, who is now working on her PhD on audio Shakespeare at the University of East Anglia.
Radio programme. Series producer Rupert Lucas talks about the series and the response it generated. Also scenes from Hamlet directed by Charles Warburton and featuring Dennis King as Hamlet and Lucas as...
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