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BBC’s arts radio programme. Philip Dodd presents a special edition devoted to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. He discusses its continuing resonance with the writer and director Jonathan Miller who first...
Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Brian Cummings. Cummings argues that the biography of Shakespeare is a paradox. Is he our...
Jonathan Gil Harris (Professor of English at Ashoka University) discusses his book ‘Masala Shakespeare: How a Firangi Writer Became Indian’ - on adaptations of Shakespeare in Indian cinema - with critic...
Third in the series of programmes on Elizabethan England. Cookery writer and chef Prue Leith discusses Elizabethan cuisine.
A series of six one-man plays written and performed by actor/comedian/writer John Sessions and recorded at London’s Half Moon Theatre. In this second episode, an American tourist visits Shakespeare’s...
Radio broadcast. Critic and writer Hilary Finch looks at the influence of Shakespeare on Verdi’s Rigoletto.
Fiction comedy short. When a staging of Hamlet fails the manager insists on putting on a revised version and persuades a wealthy girl to play Ophelia. In the performance the Ghost does a song and dance...
Podcast. Austin Tichenor talks to writer Ian Doescher about his book ‘William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope’ and other titles in his series of pop culture appropriations re-written in the...
Chinese writer and actress Tsai Chin talks about her life in Shanghai, London and New York and her return to China to direct a production of The Tempest. Includes a brief extract from the production (in...
BBC Radio 4 series in which famous villains are given a re-trial. In this episode politician and writer Roy Hattersley argues that Shakespeare’s Richard III was the victim of a press conspiracy.
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