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BBC arts and media magazine series. In this episode presenter Sarah Dunant interviews Professor Gary Taylor on his book Reinventing Shakespeare (1989) and his claim that Shakespeare does not merit all the...
Radio mystery game. In this 15-minute listening test, voices of a number of well-known broadcasters speak unannounced into the microphone in a type of performance with which they are not usually associated....
Actress Sheila Hancock and Guildhall drama students Xanthe Gresham and Peter Wingfield explore the craft of the actor. This episode focuses on Shakespeare. With instruction from actor Ian McKellen. Includes...
As part of a mixed radio programme showcasing famous love scenes from music and literature, Hesketh Pearson and Mary O’Farrell perform excerpts from Romeo and Juliet (II ii), Richard III (I ii), and A...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Since 2002, Gregory and Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum, better known as GQ and JAQ - the Q Brothers - have been using hip-hop to adapt and update the plays of Shakespeare....
A discussion presented in two parts hosted by Bill Kristol with University of Virginia literature professor Paul Cantor. In the first, Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? (from 00:00 to 45:00), Cantor debunks...
Radio series which broadcast extracts of plays staged in London’s theatres. This edition includes Vanessa Redgrave as Rosalind and Ian Bannen as Orlando in Act III, sc ii of As You Like It. The RSC...
Sonnet no. 76 / Alfred Janson (6:01) - Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Nils Lindberg (2:58) - Fancies / Sven-Eric Johanson (13:59) - Songs of Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest (11:30) -...
US comedy variety show hosted by Steve Allen. This episode features actor Andy Griffith, as a yogi,explaining Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a comedy monologue. The edition is renowned for the appearance of Elvis...
Televised extracts from Julius Caesar with Malcolm Keen as Brutus, Robert Holmes (Cassius), Mary Hinton (Portia). It is presented in conjunction with Peter Creswell’s sound production of the play. The...
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