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Sunday 23 April 1989 commemorates 425 years since the birth of William Shakespeare. Dr Levi Fox, director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, takes Norman Painting on a tour of Stratford-upon-Avon’s most...
Radio Documentary. Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, looks at the impact that the plague had on the life and work of William Shakespeare, focusing in particular on how this may...
Television documentary. Joan Bakewell visits Stratford-upon-Avon where Shakespeare has become the object of adoration, scholarship and commerce as the heritage industry grows. She visits his supposed...
Radio broadcast. Professor Nandini Das explores how the life and works of Robert Greene can offer us new insight into what English theatre might have been, beyond the shadow of Shakespeare. Controbutors...
Radio documentary. Graphic designer Teresa Monachino looks at who owns Shakespeare in terms of branding and how the name and image have been commercialised. Contributors include: Professor Michael Dobson...
Radio broadcast. Russell Davies hosts a special Shakespeare-themed edition of the ‘Brain of Britain’ quiz to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. The guests contestants are...
Radio broadcast. This edition of Sunday Feature is made of two items - the first is ‘Is it wrong to have children? and the second is ‘Do terrorists have a problem with Shakespeare? in which Dr Islam...
Poet Ian McMillan hosts late night entertainment with a roundtable of writers celebrating Shakespeare’s language. Benet Brandreth, a rhetoric coach, has written a new novel imagining Shakespeare’s lost...
Two-part radio series in which Jonathan Bate examines how the works of Shakespeare and Mozart have been forged. Part 1 discusses Shakespeare. Since Shakespeare’s death his works have been given alleged...
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