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As part of the of this episode of the midday radio art programme, presenter Andrew Anderson interviews Dr Jack Heller from Huntington University about SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS, a programme that helps...
Television arts and culture magazine programme presented by Mark Kermode. Includes an excerpt (c30 minutes) from rehearsals of Othello by the inmates of Brixton prison in south London. The Dream Factory, at...
A daily interview radio programme about social change and day-to-day life presented by Richard Aedy. This edition, in the second of four stories, reports on prisoners at Queensland’s Borallon Correctional...
Feature film derived from John Herbert’s stage play of the same name. Smitty, a young and naive young man, is sent to a reformatory prison for six months. He is assigned a cell with Queenie, a drag queen,...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. While Nelson Mandela was incarcerated on South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the other political prisoners managed to retain a copy of Shakespeare’s complete...
Documentary. Twenty male inmates of the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in La Grange, Kentucky form an acting troupe and perform The Tempest. The film follows the inmates through a 40-week rehearsal...
A prison project initiated and supported by London Shakespeare Workout led by Bruce Wall. In ANIMATING MACBETH, the epilogue (read by Kenneth Branagh) is written in iambic verse by Clare, a woman...
US radio documentary series hosted by Ira Glass. This episode is devoted to one story. Over the course of six months, reporter Jack Hitt followed a group of inmates at a high-security prison as they...
Television documentary series. Examines the transforming influence of the arts on some of the toughest men and women in Britain. In the the sixth and final episode in the series Bruce Wall, from the London...
US television drama series. Oz is the nickname for the Oswald State Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison. OZ is narrated by Augustus Hill, a wheelchair-bound prisoner (Perrineau, who was killed...