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R. A. Foakes, University of Kent, and Kenneth Muir, University of Liverpool, discuss the play. Side 2 comprises readings from the play.
R A Foakes, University of Kent, and Kenneth Muir, University of Liverpool, discuss approaches to the Othello, which is often regarded as a domestic tragedy, different in nature from the other great...
Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 2: Confronted by the increasingly maddening (and mad) behaviour of her boyfriend, a nineties Ophelia discusses the nature of...
Variety show from the ABC Theatre, Blackpool,introduced by Tony Hancock. This episode includes a ca. 5 min. sketch in which Tony Hancock, wearing costume and wig, performs a Shakespearean stand-up routine,...
Documentary film about contemporary British art and culture. Includes a brief scene from Peter Hall’s production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company in which David Warner delivers a soliloquy.
Radio adaptation of Measure for Measure by Peter Kavanagh with Ronald Pickup as the Duke and Saskia Reeves as Isabella.
Radio drama by Martyn Wade. Based on a true story, William Ireland was an unhappy child, born in the 18th century, who wanted to impress his brutal father. He wrote, and then claimed to have discovered,...
Arts and media programme presented by Sarah Dunant. Includes an item (16 mins) on Russian theatre director Yuri Lyubimov rehearsing Hamlet with English actors at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester. Lyubimov...
Third concert in a week’s series of BBC Radio 3 ‘Afternoon Performances’ dedicated to showcasing music written for and inspired by the works of Shakespeare and other literary authors. The...
Excerpts produced for a school audience. Shows the murder of Duncan (II ii) and the sleepwalking scene (V i). The London Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Muir Matheson.