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Radio series in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced modern times. In this episode Bragg discusses Shakespeare’s sonnets with Hannah Crawforth (King’s...
Melvyn Bragg and his guests Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan and Katherine Lewis discuss Shakespeare’s versions of history, starting with the English Plantagenets, covering the eight plays produced from Richard...
Radio broadcast. A recital from Middle Temple, London where Shakespeare himself performed Twelfth Night. Actors Emma Fielding and Simon Russell Beale are joined by Lisa Milne (soprano), Christopher Maltman...
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,...
A podcast lecture series focusing on a single play by Shakespeare, and employing a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching...
Video recording of the Shakespeare Globe Theatre’s 2014 touring production of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Max Webster which returned to the Globe in 2015 with a different cast. Christopher Harper...
Stage recording of Max Webster’s 2014 touring production with Simon Bubb as Benedict and Emma Pallant as Beatrice.
Shakespeare’s tragedy, adapted and directed for radio by Emma Harding, set in an imagined near future in which Turkey attacks Cyprus. Western forces rush to Cyprus’ defence, under the command of General...
A personal view of the play presented by Emma Tennant. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by stressing...
Broadcast of a stage recording of the 2016 Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Emma Rice, which privileges a fusion of music, comedy and dance. Ex-cabaret...
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