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Radio feature. Author and historian Jerry Brotton investigates the history of relations between England and the Islamic world during the early modern period, a complex alliance that he finds dramatised in...
Jealousy decimates a reunion between old friends, a once happy marriage and the childhood of a princess. In Act 4 scenes 4, part 2, the future looks uncertain for Florizel and Perdita and Camillo engineers...
Jealousy decimates a reunion between old friends, a once happy marriage and the childhood of a princess. In Act 4 scene 4, part 1, the sheep shearing feast is the rendez-vous of choice for Perdita, Florizel...
Video recording of a live event hosted by Mairi Nicolson made as a preview of concerts by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on 22 and 24 April 2021 devoted to music inspired by Shakespeare. They discuss the...
Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and guests Jonathan Bate, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama at the...
Recording of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre 2018 production of The Winter’s Tale directed by Blanche McIntyre. With Zora Bishop, Will Keen and Annette Badland. Directed for the screen by Ian Russell.
A five-part radio series in which Professor Emma Smith, University of Oxford, talks to major public figures about the role that Shakespeare might play in dealing with contemporary issues. With contributions...
Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones, Professor John Sutherland and textual scholar Grace Ioppolo examine what we do know about the life of William Shakespeare. How was...
Jonathan Freedland and Professor Emma Smith discuss the closure of theatres in Shakespeare’s time during an outbreak of the plague in 1603.
Claudius is despatched to Sweden to repatriate the body of the traitor, Lord Anders. He discovers deeply worrying news about a plot by his brother, King Hamlet. Elsinore is set in an alternative Europe of...
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