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Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Nashville he watched Henry V set during the Civil War.Composer Stephen Sondheim and actor Alec Baldwin contribute....
Radio broadcast. Isn’t silent Shakespeare an oxymoron? All that’s nuanced, beautiful, meaningful in the poetry - silenced. Yet between 1899 and 1927, when the first commercial sound film was released,...
Radio broadcast. When did Stratford and the country at large really begin to celebrate Shakespeare? Radio 3 presenter Suzy Klein is in conversation with Professors Michael Dobson and Ewan Fernie of the...
A world premiere commemorative concert in Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon. Ex Cathedra, conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore, perform Thomas Arne’s 18th- century musical setting of An Ode to Shakespeare by...
BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service charts the magical chemistry between Shakespeare’s language and the music it has given life to over the last 400 years - from Romeo and Juliet to The Tempest.
A Shakespeare Masque, written by the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and composed by Sally Beamish. Ex Cathedra and City Musick are conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Short drama by Tom Wells with specially commissioned music by Tom Coult. The first of five dramas in response to Shakespeare’s sonnets beginning with Sonnet 29. Lee arrives late to the pop-up restaurant...
Radio play by Jonathan Holloway. Shakespeare died 400 years ago on the same day as the Spanish writer Cervantes - except they didn’t. The calendars of the two countries were ten days apart. Cervantes plots...
Short drama by Francesca Martinez in response to Shakespeare’s sonnet no. 61. Music by Nina Whiteman. Maxine Peake reads "Is it thy will, thy image should keep open/My heavy eyelids to the weary night?".
Poet Ian McMillan hosts late night entertainment with a roundtable of writers celebrating Shakespeare’s language. Benet Brandreth, a rhetoric coach, has written a new novel imagining Shakespeare’s lost...