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Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speaks about the cycle of Shakespeare’s history plays which he has directed. He also speaks of the advantages of the thrust stage and how...
Combined book and audio CD. Includes John Gielgud in a recording from the 1930s reciting a speech of Puck’s, plus performances from Michael Maloney, Amanda Root and David Harewood. The text is illustrated...
Combined book and audio CD. Includes a speech from Edwin Booth from 1890, and a 1944 recording of Paul Robeson delivering Othello’s address to the senate. There are performances by Paul Scofield, F. Scott...
Radio documentary. As part of a three-hour tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bernstein’s musical, two documentary programmes look at the origins of the musical, how it made its way to Broadway,...
The artistic director of the National Theatre, London Nicholas Hytner talks to Heather Neill about his plans for his production of Much Ado About Nothing with Simon Russell Beale and Zoe Wanamaker, which...
Recording for French television of King Lear directed by André Engel and staged by the Théâtre National de l’Odéon. Michel Piccoli is Lear.
Live coverage of the England v France 2007 Rugby World Cup first semi-final at Stade de France, Paris presented by Jim Rosenthal. In the build-up coverage, Geoffrey Streatfeild, currently rehearsing the role...
Third episode in a radio series exploring the "background, effect, and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems". Peggy Reynolds discusses the linguistic, legal and theological complexities of Portia’s...
This live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Verity Sharp, features Oliver Knussen’s 7-minute sequence Ophelia Dances which evokes Ophelia’s perturbation at her rejection by Hamlet, her...
Radio programme. Themed on the subject of time, this episode’s ‘Word and Music’ features Greta Scacchi reciting Sonnet no. 12 "When I do count the clock that tells the time"; Greg Wise ends the...
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