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News programme. Includes a two-minute report on the work of the English Shakespeare Company actors helping with the teaching of Shakespeare to students at Wakefield Comprehensive in West Yorkshire. The...
A musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Written by D. F. Aitken, with music by Harry Jacobson and Kenneth Leslie-Smith. Lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and James Dyrenforth. Adapted for radio by...
Radio adaptation of the play produced and directed by Richard Wortley. With John Hurt in the title role and David Suchet as Bolingbroke. Music composed by Ilona Sekacz.
Live audio recording of a performance of Much Ado About Nothing directed for the National Theatre in 1965 by Franco Zeffirelli. Robert Stephens is Benedick and Maggie Smith, Beatrice. Ian McKellen plays...
Radio play written by Joe Burroughs about the English actor Edmund Kean (1787-1833). Kean systematically studied the principal Shakespearean characters, displaying the peculiar originality of his genius by...
A recording of the National Theatre production, directed by John Dexter, restyled somewhat for film, but retaining much of its ‘staginess’, Olivier doing little to adapt his towering and extravagant...
Live sound recording of John Dexter’s production of Othello for the National Theatre with Laurence Olivier in the title role.
Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2014 staging of Love’s Labour’s Lost directed by Christopher Luscombe.
Stage recording edited together from various performances from the original run. Created for online delivery in response to the theatre’s closure due to the Covid-19 crisis. A modern-dress production with...