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Radio documentary. Historian Fiona Watson and literary expert Molly Rourke examine the life and reputation of Macbeth and ask how much is Shakespeare responsible for his evil reputation. They claim that the...
2-disc CD. Alan Cumming delivers a virtuoso performance playing every role in the National Theatre of Scotland’s presentation of Macbeth. This reimagining is set in a psychiatric unit in which Cumming is...
Television series on Scottish art. Focuses on TAG (Theatre in Glasgow) originally set up as the educational arm of the the Citizens’ Theatre. Follows a touring production of King Lear for schools as they...
Scottish Gaelic children’s animated series. In this episode, the players take on the Bard but librarian Laura Potts is baffled by their eccentricity.
Cathy MacDonald finds the Gaelic roots of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and explores the landscape where the real history happened. Cathy discovers that the real King Macbeth was very different to Shakespeare’s...
Documentary series on the history of influential British films. This episode looks at SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. Narrated by Ashley Jensen.
Police detective-crime anthology series. Because of his luxurious fur coat, a hammy actor becomes involved with crooks. His coat resembles the one that a gang’s fence wears, and he is continually finding...
Radio drama. In Paul R. Hyde’s short story "a man encounters Shakespeare in a dream and finds him to be a scoundrel, a rogue - and a waiter in Verona" (Radio Times, programme notes, p. 127). The story is...
A performance of Berlioz’s choral symphony by the Orchestré Revolutionnaire et Romantique, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, with the Monteverdi Choir and the National Youth Choir of Scotland. Julie...
Arts anthology series presented by Melvyn Bragg. A record of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s regional tour in 1979. Follows the Company on tour from Redruth in Cornwall to Stirling in Scotland with...
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