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Radio series. A five-part daily reading (4-8/10/2004) from Stephen Greenblatt’s book Will in the World investigating Shakespeare’s life, work and the times he lived in. Abridged by Miranda Davies. Read...
Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....
5-part serialised reading of Charles Nicholl’s book The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street. Marshalling evidence from a wide variety of sources, including the previously unknown documentary material,...
Radio broadcast. Professor Jerry Brotton examines Queen Elizabeth I’s fascination with the Orient and Britain’s first contacts with the Muslim world. Read by Derek Jacobi. 5: How the London stage...
Radio broadcast. Antony Sher reads from ‘The Year of the Fat Knight’, his account of rehearsing and performing the role of Falstaff in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2014 production of Henry IV Parts...
First episode in a five-part series of selected readings from John Gielgud’s correspondences through the decades. The episode focuses on Gielgud playing the lead in the 1936 production of Hamlet on...