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Poetry celebration of Shakespeare with focus on his sonnets and the use of poetry in his plays. Poetry readings by actors Ion Caramitru and Michael Pennington. The following sonnets and extracts were read at...
Eight-part television series, the aim of which was to explore ‘how far television can be used to allow the poem itself to work undisturbedly on the reader-listener’. Professor I.A Richards discusses The...
Radio broadcast. In a special edition of the poetry programme, presenter Roger McGough revisits some of the poetry readings recorded for the programme in 1998 by the late Paul Scofield and Juliet Stevenson....
Programme of Shakespeare’s poetry and John Dowland’s music to celebrate Peggy Ashcroft’s 80th birthday. Includes extracts from Othello, Venus and Adonis, The Phoenix and Turtle and Shakespeare’s...
Radio broadcast. A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of circles, curves and contours, with readings from Deborah Findlay and Hugh Fraser. Including texts by Shakespeare, Tennyson, Emily...
Radio 3 poetry series. Christopher Ricks explores some short poems worth remembering. The first episode focuses on Frances Cornford’s ‘Childhood’ and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73.
Eight-part television series, the aim of which was to explore ‘how far television can be used to allow the poem itself to work undisturbedly on the reader-listener’. In episode 7, Professor I.A. Richards...
Television documentary series. A nine-part series in which John Barton, associate director with the Royal Shakespeare Company, works with RSC actors analysing how Shakespeare’s text works examining the use...
Radio series. To celebrate the BBC’s November Shakespeare season, presenter Roger McGough introduces requests for verse by Shakespeare. Sonnets and excerpts read by Fiona Shaw and Barrie Rutter. (30 minutes)
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the theme of mirrors and reflections, variously showing the mirror as a symbol of vanity, self-examination and the limits of human understanding....
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