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Live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Martin Hendley, bringing together two key themes of the season: Shakespeare and Auden. The Halle Orchestra, conducted by Mark Elder, performs Macbeth by...
Glyndebourne Opera’s performance of Verdi’s Macbeth broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall in London. Polish lyric baritone Andrzej Dobber (Macbeth) leads an international cast that is directed by...
Feature film. A Balkan gypsy movie and a loose re-working of Romeo and Juliet. The annual brass band competition in the small Serbian town of Gucha is welcomed by the whole region. Tensions rise when a young...
Japanese anime series very loosely based on Romeo and Juliet along with numerous references and characters from other Shakespearian plays. On a stormy night, the Montagues of Neo Verona (an aerial city)...
Radio feature. Author and historian Jerry Brotton investigates the history of relations between England and the Islamic world during the early modern period, a complex alliance that he finds dramatised in...
Adapted for radio by Roger Elsgood and Willi Richards, The Two Gentlemen Of Valasna relocates Shakespeare’s play to India. Set in the weeks leading up to the 1857 Indian Mutiny, it was recorded in English,...
Radio broadcast. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ interval programme Scottish historian Dr Fiona Watson, accompanied by other historians, finds the Scottish birthplace of the Macbeth legend, a Celtic...
Radio broadcast. In this two-part programme Professor Michael Dobson explores the history of outdoor Shakespeare productions. The second episode (30/07/2007) focuses on the amateur theatre company.
Radio broadcast. In this first of four Proms Saturday Matinee concerts, Petroc Trelawny introduces readings from Shakespeare, interspersed with music inspired by his plays performed by the Britten Sinfonia....
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Dr. Ian Smith about his new book, Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race, which explores how Shakespeare explores race in his plays.
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