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Comedy sketch series written and performed by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. This episode includes a sketch, ‘Ignore’, in which Hugh Laurie is an earnest ‘modern’ lecturer standing in front of a inert...
Science fiction adventure series. The Doctor takes Martha on her first trip in the TARDIS. Arriving in Elizabethan England in 1599 they meet William Shakespeare who is writing Love’s Labour’s Won. The...
Independent local radio programme. Vox pop with members of the audience after seeing Peter O’Toole’s performance as Macbeth at the Old Vic, London directed by Bryan Forbes - "a bit of a comedy, they...
Video podcast presenting an analysis of political and legal developments in late Elizabethan England and their representation in Shakespeare’s plays, focusing on contemporary debates concerning the powers...
A hip-hop version of Othello staged by the Q Brothers from Chicago as part of the Globe to Globe season. "This version, updated by the Q Brothers, best known for their 2003 hip-hop adaptation of The Comedy...
British newsfilm. Othello acted in a public house. At a Public House in Carshalton a local amateur theatrical company (The Taverners) is giving a performance of Othello. Some of the cast in costume at the...
`The Cellar Tapes’ revue. Includes a sketch (7 mins), written and acted, by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, which parodies a Shakespeare masterclass. The speech being worked on is from Troilus and Cressida,...
Classic radio comedy series. In this episode, in a running sketch entitled ‘The Backroom Boys of the BBC’ Bill Pertwee, as a military commander, rallies the backroom boys (the laughmakers) who infiltrate...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode poet Wendy Cope chooses Sonnet 29 as the piece of Shakespeare that inspired her most. Performed...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt chooses Sonnet 29 as the piece of Shakespeare that inspires him...
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