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Radio series in five parts. Writers from Sierra Leone, Brazil, India, Iran and China explain why a playwright from sixteenth century Stratford resonates so powerfully in their own countries. In this fourth...
A selection of audio clips performed by Canadian Air Farce and presented on the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare website (CASP). They offer comedic representations of Shakespeare in relation to Canadian...
Five young scholars re-evaluate the playwrights work. The second programme is delivered by James Loxley, Professor of Early Modern Literature in the University of Edinburgh. At a time when relationships...
Documentary radio programme in which presenter John Pickford explores Shakespeare’s role as national poet and the different versions of Englishness he presents.
Radio documentary. From the Sir John Falstaff Goblet Collection to the complete plays on CD Rom, Shakespeare is alive in multitudinous ways. But in what state is the English national poet at the new...
Podcast. An interview with Brian Carroll about his book, Shakespeare’s Sceptered Isle: Finding English National Identity in the Plays, on what Elizabethan audiences may have thought being ‘English’...
Radio discussion. Jonathan Bate and his guests Michael Dobson, Peter Ackroyd and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown examine the role Shakespeare has played in the national consciousness and debate what England meant to...
60-Second Shakespeare is a BBC project to encourage UK students to create their own 60-second interpretations of Shakespeare using audio, video, animation and IT skills. In this production students deliver...
Radio programme. !0 years after his death, what is Olivier’s cultural legacy? By cutting the theatre text of Henry V he created a film of patriotic wartime propaganda which still colours perceptions of...
British newsfilm. "The Prince of Wales opens Memorial Theatre before representatives of 40 nations at Stratford". The Prince begins his speech ‘Shakespeare was above all things an Englishman, he loved his...
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