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Radio drama by Michael Innes, attempting to reconstruct the Ur-Hamlet, a lost play possibly written by Thomas Kyd, believed to be the immediate source of Hamlet. As Innes writes: "Basically ... I have tried...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s tragedy adapted by Cynthia Pughe and produced for broadcasting by Val Gielgud. With June Tobin and Gabriel Woolf in the lead and Marius Goring as Mercutio. The music is drawn...
Shakespeare’s play produced for radio by Michael Powell. With Irene Worth as Portia, Harry Andrews as Shylock and other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company.
Documentary profile of Edric Connor, who came to England in 1944 and took a job with the World Service. In 1958, he became the first black actor to appear with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Syndicated weekly concert radio series. Includes a excerpt with Paul Robeson singing in the final scene of Otello. Includes extracts taken from the live concert Robeson gave at the Carnegie Hall on May 9...
Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe presented by Michelle Terry. In this Christmas edition, Dr Will Tosh debunks some of the myths surrounding the dismantling in December 1958 of the Globe Theatre in...
Podcast. Cassie Dickson speaks with the Shakespeare Society’s First Year Rep, Subhan Ahmed Haye, about Shakespeare and world cinema and how this can make the original plays more accessible to contemporary...
A series of short programmes transmitted as part of the BBC WINDRUSH season made to mark 50 years since the Windrush ship brought black immigrants to Britain. Black people who broke down barriers for others...
Radio recording of Peter Hall’s stage production of the play at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Adapted and produced for broadcasting by Peter Dews, starring Dorothy Tutin as...
A personal introduction to the play by Dorothy Tutin, who played Viola in Peter Hall’s production of the play at Stratford in 1958.
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