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An unabridged recording of the play using the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition edited by David Lindley. Ian McKellen is Prospero.
A personal introduction to the play by Ian Hogg, who played the title role at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1974. With excerpts performed by Margot Boyd, Joe Dunlop, Edward Kelsey and John Rye.
Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....
Radio broadcast. Special edition of the weekly word and language show hosted by Ian McMillan transmitted live from the new BBC Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London. Guests include Irish playwright...
Televised recording of an open-air theatre production directed by Robert Atkins and performed by the Bankside Players at Regent’s Park, London. The performance includes a fairy ballet dancing to...
Radio programme. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ literary interval programme Ian McMillan is joined by the historian Tristram Hunt who discusses Shakespeare’s vision of kingship and chooses his...
Radio programme. An account of the Royal Shakespeare’s Company production of Richard II as part of Peter Hall’s seven-play history cycle The Wars of the Roses. Members of the Company speak of their work...
Live sound recording of John Barton’s production of Richard II for the RSC with Ian Richardson as Richard and Richard Pasco as Bolingbroke.
Arts anthology series presented by Melvyn Bragg. A record of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s regional tour in 1979. Follows the Company on tour from Redruth in Cornwall to Stirling in Scotland with...
Radio play written by Christopher William Hill. Ian Richardson plays Oxford academic A. L. Rowse, best known for his overly confident identification of "the Dark Lady" of Shakespeare’s sonnets. The play...
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