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Radio broadcast. Series in which Fiona Shaw tries to recreate the sounds of England during Shakespeare’s time. In this episode Shaw finds London alive with church bells, hawkers and ballad singers singing...
Radio play by Susan Cooper, dramatised by Beatrice Colin. A magical adventure story set partly in the present day and partly in Elizabethan England. Chosen to play Puck in a production of A Midsummer...
Feature film comedy. Tommy Handley and friends are transported back in time to Elizabethan England. Among various encounters with Elizabethans, Susie Barton enters the Globe theatre and finds William...
Radio entertainment show in which presenter Marcus Brigstocke cajoles guests into experiencing something very everyday for the first time. In this episode, the culturally well-endowed comedian and political...
Feature film. ‘Comedy based on the characters created by Bruce Bairnsfather. Old Bill, in the trenches during the First World War, eats tinned lobster and dreams that he and his friends travel back in time...
"Miranda’s Letter" uses "The Tempest" to deliver a creative response to Shakespeare’s limited exploration of the relationships between mothers and daughters. As her widowed father is too preoccupied...
Radio feature. Author and historian Jerry Brotton investigates the history of relations between England and the Islamic world during the early modern period, a complex alliance that he finds dramatised in...
Video recording of Tim Crouch’s play for children aged 11+ which encourages young audiences to think about the relationship between words and actions, art and politics and self and society. I, Cinna (the...
Feature film contributing to the Shakespeare tercentenary and concerning the Bacon-Shakespeare authorship question. Miss Gray (LaBadie) and Lieutenant Stanton (Vaughn) are engaged but disagree as to who...
This audio drama is a continuation of the television series Doctor Who, with Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Bonnie Langford returning to the roles of the Doctor and his companions Ace and Mel. In this...
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