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Five-part radio series in which famous actors talk about the character of Hamlet. In episode five, broadcast on The Third Programme on 16 May 1954, John Gielgud reflects on a 25-year association with the...
Audio podcast. An irreverent and often rude look at Shakespeare, hosted by actor-directors Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson. This edition looks at the fools and clown in his plays and how they are...
Sixth of twelve programmes in which all Shakespeare sonnets are recited by various actors. The programme is introduced by Rayner Heppenstall. Michael Redgrave reads Sonnets 56 to 68.
Radio series. To celebrate the BBC’s November Shakespeare season, presenter Roger McGough introduces requests for verse by Shakespeare. Sonnets and excerpts read by Fiona Shaw and Barrie Rutter. (30 minutes)
Lecture by Michael Bogdanov, Artistic Director of the English Shakespeare Company. The session is chaired by P.D. James, Baroness James of Holland Park.
Audio podcast. An irreverent and often rude look at Shakespeare, hosted by actor-directors Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson. This edition explores how one might collocate Shakespeare’s characters...
Radio broadcast. Theatre director and theatre designer Tyrone Guthrie talks about his early encounters with Shakespeare, his approach as a theatre director, and what qualities in the man himself are worth...
Radio broadcast. In this two-part programme Professor Michael Dobson explores the history of outdoor Shakespeare productions. The second episode (30/07/2007) focuses on the amateur theatre company.
Of the 154 sonnets written by Shakespeare, most were written to an unnamed young man, commonly referred to as the Fair Youth. Here, Judi Dench’s readings of these 14 sonnets (nos 27, 29, 30, 43, 53, 55,...
News item (mute). Guests attending a party for the first night of Love’s Labour Lost at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford on 3rd July 1956. The play was directed by Peter Hall, his first...
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