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Audio podcast. Peter Graystone tries to answer the question, ‘What could Shakespeare’s plays and poems teach me about the Christian faith and the God who loves me?' He focuses on The Winter’s Tale and...
Shankar Vedantam presents a look at the way a people is dehumanised before a genocide. Featuring the experiences and theories of Ervin Staub, it first looks at his experiences in Nazi Germany and then looks...
A series of four films using still drawings from a number of artists to accompany poetry readings. Sponsored by the British Film Institute and produced by Halas and Batchelor for the Festival of Britain,...
Video podcast. Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. Ben Jonson wrote in 1623 that Shakespeare ‘art a Moniment, without a tombe/ And art alive still,...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir talks with scholars Gail Kern Paster and Jeremy Lopez about why we continue to learn something new from Shakespeare’s plays more than four...
Animation. The Romeo and Juliet story as experienced by two lovesick cats. Includes two balcony scenes: one when Julio caterwauls from the back fence to his loved one who is prevented from responding having...
Radio programme. Together with guests Professor George Steiner and Professor Catherine Belsey, presenter Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the genre of tragedy and examines whether we (still) have a...
Twice-weekly television news magazine programme. In this episode Ludovic Kennedy interviews Peggy Ashcroft. In her first television interview Dame Peggy speaks of her unease at the way stage drama translates...
Independent feature film. An actor decides to fulfil his ambition of putting together a theatre company to enable him to play the part of Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. An audition takes place and...
A series of short vignettes in which six contemporary storytellers offer their interpretations of the word ‘fire’. Playwright Christopher Durang creates a mini-sitcom on the woes of inactivity;...
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