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A BBC Radio 4 dramatic adaptation of Keats’ narrative poem ‘Lamia’, about the ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia, and the innocent mortal Lycius. [1 hour] Featuring original music by John...
Radio play written by Richard Cameron. Set in a Manchester high school it focuses on the lives of four disaffected teenagers and their drama teacher who are about to stage an improvised play based on...
In the coming week BBC Radio is broadcasting several programmes relating to Shakespeare and his work, the most prominent of which will be a new radio production of Othello in the Saturday Play slot on 27...
In this episode of the Irish murder-mystery series created by Barry Devlin, priest-turned-sleuth Paolo Baldi digs around in the murderous world of gardening. The plot is loosely based on King Lear, with...
Radio drama. London, 1607. A penniless young actor roams drunkenly through London believing his life to be a failure. A failure made more painful by the fact that he is the younger brother of the more...
Radio drama written by Robert Nye and adapted from his own novel. A portrait of Shakespeare seen through the eyes of his wife, Anne Hathaway. Anne gives an account of the week she first visited William in...
Radio play written by Christopher William Hill. Ian Richardson plays Oxford academic A. L. Rowse, best known for his overly confident identification of "the Dark Lady" of Shakespeare’s sonnets. The play...
Radio play written by Timberlake Wertenbaker and directed by Ned Chaillet. Five-scene drama involving courting couples in various stages of life. The scene entitled ‘Summer’ rewrites the wooing scene of...
BBC Radio 4 drama written by Helen Cross. On Shakespeare’s birthday in 1932 two young women set off from Birmingham to see the opening of the new theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. One dreams of meeting the...
Radio drama. Three prominent writers (Will Self, Bonnie Greer and Ali Smith) encounter the figures whom they regard as iconic. Bonnie Greer meets Shakespeare’s Dark Lady, Will Self meets Dorian Gray and...