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The Hogarth Shakespeare series is a project that invites the world’s leading writers to adapt one of Shakespeare’s plays into a novel. The author of "Girl With a Pearl Earring", Tracy Chevalier uses a...
Shortened adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel. Includes the sequences where Nicholas joins the Crummles’ company and plays Romeo in their production of Romeo and Juliet.
An adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel by Ken Taylor. In one scene (Chapter 34 in the book) Henry Crawford impresses Fanny Price by his ability to read aloud from Shakespeare. Henry reads from Henry VIII...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Lolita Chakrabarti about bringing Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel Hamnet, about Shakespeare’s son, to the stage.
Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuyler, New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday and composer Michelle Assay have looked at the murdering husband and wife of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Chris...
Matthew Sweet is joined live by Professor Preti Taneja, author of a novel We That Are Young, which sets the King Lear in Delhi; Dr Iain Smith, who studies films from around the world; and by Andrew Dickson,...
Television adaptation, heavily abridged, of Jane Austen’s novel. The scene in Chapter 34 in which Henry Crawford endeavours to recommend himself to Fanny Price by reading aloud from various characters in...
Radio play. Actor Robert Reynolds, known as Pickleherring, reminisces about his life as a boy actor in Shakespeare’s company, in Jonathan Broadbent’s adaptation of Robert Nye’s novel.
Radio drama in four episodes. Jeremy Front’s adaptation of Simon Brett’s 2013 novel about Charles Paris, a small time actor and amateur sleuth. Paris returns to the stage as the Ghost in Hamlet, but...
Two-hour radio version of Shakespeare’s tragedy adapted for broadcasting by Barbara Burnham and produced by Val Gielgud. With John Gielgud in the title role, Margaretta Scott as Ophelia, Robert Donat as...
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