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Radio broadcast. Paul Guinery introduces a performance of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Roger Norrington conducts the London Classical Players and the...
A personal introduction to the play given by Roger Rees, who starred in Trevor Nunn’s 1976 Royal Shakespeare Company musical version of the play.
Radio series exploring the work of Renaissance nobleman and writer Michel de Montaigne. In this episode Jonathan Bate considers the relationship between Montaigne and Shakespeare. Excerpts from the essays...
Radio broadcast. Roger Nichols examines Berlioz’s approach to his operatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
Television detective series. On a work trip to London to learn the techniques of the British police, Columbo becomes involved in the murder of Roger Haversham. Haversham is a rich businessman financing the...
Presented by Andrew MacGregor. Roger Parker recommends a recording of Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff.
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 broadcast. Piers Burton-Page discusses with classicist Edith Hall and literary historian Roger Savage, why the tradition of deus ex machina is so enduring, focusing on the operas of Mozart and 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....
Radio play written by Edwin Pearce with a convoluted plot involving Professor Homer, a devoted and eccentric Shakespearean academic and his involvement with Shakespeare’s remains.
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