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Professor Emma Smith looks at how Shakespeare shapes his plots.
In this radio interview presented by Barry Carman, 23-year old David Warner (at the time the youngest actor to have played Hamlet on the professional stage) explains how he approached the part and how he...
In this radio programme Derek Jacobi, who played Hamlet in the BBC TV production, gives a personal introduction to the play. He examines the many interpretations of a role that has been regarded as the...
Radio broadcast. Writer Iain Sinclair walks the streets of London in the company of historians, scholars and archaeologists, seeking out Shakespeare’s city in the London of today. He visits the court, the...
Benjamin Zephaniah and Rowan Williams share their favourite Shakespearean moments. Zephaniah recalls playing Puck for Sam Wanamaker while Williams discusses Macbeth.
Radio programme. 45-year old actor Edward Fox, having taken on the part for a Young Vic production, tells presenter Brian Matthew how it feels to play a character who should be portrayed by an actor closer...
Radio series in six parts in which Michael Billington talks to actors about key roles in the repertoire. In the last episode Michael Pennington and Kenneth Branagh talk to critic Michael Billington about...
David Hare and Martha Kearney on deviant psychology and fancy dress in Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
As part of the Radio 3 arts programme broadcast on 12 November 1970, critic Michael Billington speaks to theatre and opera director Jonathan Miller about some of the staging difficulties for a production of...
Gareth Malone and Margaret Drabble on strength and nature in Henry V and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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