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Television current affairs series. Includes an item (c 9min) in which Fran Morrison reports on London’s National Theatre production of Measure for Measure, directed by Michael Rudman, which is set in the...
Video podcast. This podcast by Steven Gunn talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare’s day. Coroners’ inquest reports into accidental deaths tell us about the hazards...
Guy Michelmore reports on Sam Wanamaker’s project of rebuilding Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre near its original site in Southwark, London. Michael Hordern, Judi Dench, Tim Pigott-Smith, and Andrew Gurr are...
Current affairs radio series with John Humphrys. This edition reports on the ‘new’ court poem ‘To The Queen’. The poem has recently been given scholarly imprimateur and included in the new edition of...
American satirical programme focusing on politics and the national media. This edition includes a report named Scamalot (c4 mins) on the current MP’s expenses scandal in Britain. John Oliver, the show’s...
Radio broadcast. The Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester staged Hamlet in the autumn of 2014. Maxine Peake played the title role in a production directed by Sarah Frankcom. The programme goes behind the...
The NEWSNIGHT episode includes a lighthearted report by Mark Easton comparing Prince Charles (whose favourite Shakespeare play is Henry V) to a Shakespearean prince. The programme also comprises interviews...
BBC current affairs television programme. In this item presenter Vera Gilbert reports from St George’s Theatre, Tufnell Park, London. St George’s is an Elizabethan-style theatre which was converted from...
Radio broadcast. In 1971 the fist World Shakespeare Congress passed a resolution expressing the hope that a studied effort will soon be made to build a full-scale reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe...
Newsfilm. Opening of the tomb of Sir Thomas Walsingham at St Nicholas’ Church, Chislehurst in a search for Shakespearean manuscripts, the existence of which American theatre critic Calvin Hoffman believes...
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