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Radio 3 poetry series. Christopher Ricks explores some short poems worth remembering. The first episode focuses on Frances Cornford’s ‘Childhood’ and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73.
Eight-part television series, the aim of which was to explore ‘how far television can be used to allow the poem itself to work undisturbedly on the reader-listener’. In episode 7, Professor I.A. Richards...
Television documentary series. A nine-part series in which John Barton, associate director with the Royal Shakespeare Company, works with RSC actors analysing how Shakespeare’s text works examining the use...
Radio broadcast. Programme of poetry by Shakespeare and his contemporaries chosen by Bea Howe and read by Robert Harris and Sara Jackson. With Shakespeare songs composed by Roger Quilter and sung by Henry...
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)
Schools radio broadcast. Third part of an 8-part English Literature series for senior pupils in which N. Niemeyer introduces poems which will then be read by ‘expert readers’. The focus of this episode...
Recording of a virtual roundtable discussion on editing William Shakespeare’s poetry, chaired by Dr Lucy Munro (King’s College London). Issues covered included assorted technical editorial problems, the...
Recording of a debate on cultural expression between author Howard Jacobson and spoken word performer George the Poet, moderated by Shahidha Bari (University of the Arts, London). They explore how relevant...
Video podcast. Professor Katherine Duncan Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, gives a talk on Venus and Adonis. In 1592-93, with London playhouses closed because of plague, Shakespeare wrote...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the theme of mirrors and reflections, variously showing the mirror as a symbol of vanity, self-examination and the limits of human understanding....