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Recording of an online video conversation between the novelists Maggie O’Farrell and Bernard Cornwell, who have respectively published books on Shakespeare’s son and his brother. Made as part of the...
Recording of a conversation between the novelists Nicole Galland and Maggie O’Farrell about the latter’s Hamnet, a fictional look at William Shakespeare’s family and the life and death of his son, Hamnet.
Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. In this edition she speaks with Maggie O’Farrell about her novel, Hamnet, about Shakespeare and his family.
As part of a mixed radio programme showcasing famous love scenes from music and literature, Hesketh Pearson and Mary O’Farrell perform excerpts from Romeo and Juliet (II ii), Richard III (I ii), and A...
Gounod’s opera performed by Opera Omaha with Craig Sirianni as Romeo and Elisabeth Comeaux as Juliet. The production was directed for stage by Leon Major and for television by Michael Farrell.
Feature film. Ben (Grint), the 17 year-old son of a vicar (Farrell), feels stifled by his devoutly religious mother (Linney). His meeting with Evie (Walters), a retired, unsuccessful actress given to...
Schools radio broadcast adapted from material supplied by Douglas R. Allan. In the first part of this 2-part programme, the producer and some of the cast discuss how Shylock should be played. The second...
Radio programme. Themed on the subject of magic in its many shades, this episode’s ‘Word and Music’ starts with Shakespeare, the theme of the year’s Proms season. Miriam Margoyles and Nicholas...
Fiction short. A western-style shoot out on a beach between God and Shakespeare - the protagonists quote variously from Shakespeare and the Bible.
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Maggie O’Farrell about her new novel, Hamnet, which focuses on William Shakespeare’s family rather than the dramatist himself.
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