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Second episode in a three-part radio series exploring the story of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Presenter James Naughtie looks at the RSC’s formative first decade interviewing...
Lucy Bailey, the director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2013 production of The Winter’s Tale. talks to RSC events co-ordinator Nicky Cox and takes questions from the audience. Bailey explains why...
Documentary series on evolutionary biology. In this episode presenter Dr Armand Leroi speaks of the levels of sophistication in the human brain and one of the examples given is Othello. Othello and Iago are...
Fourth of a five-part series of radio essays exploring Shakespeare’s portrayal of love and how his work affects perceptions of love. In this episode, Professor Helen Hackett reflects on the enduring power...
As part of the Radio 3 arts programme broadcast on 12 November 1970, critic Michael Billington speaks to theatre and opera director Jonathan Miller about some of the staging difficulties for a production of...
A thirteen-part television series, presented by Richard Ouzounian, on the history of the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Episode 5 looks at artistic director Robin Phillips who brought an array of...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. While Nelson Mandela was incarcerated on South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the other political prisoners managed to retain a copy of Shakespeare’s complete...
Radio programme presented by Jenni Murray. In this edition Professor Tony Howard and Kathryn Hunter talk to Jenni Murray about women who have played the role of Hamlet. Tony Howard talks about HAMLET and...
Radio drama. In the preamble to a memory play about silk replacing beaver as a material for making hats, Kit Carson’s friend Doc mentions that his eyes are getting weak, which he blames on excessive...
Television programme. Kenneth Tynan interviews Laurence Olivier about his career and major Shakespeare roles. Olivier speaks of how he used the Oedipus complex in Hamlet, working with Tyrone Guthrie (whom...