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Radio debate series. Chairman Nick Clarke debates the motion ‘The Heritage Industry Distorts British History’ from the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Listeners are invited to telephone or...
Radio documentary. Jeremy Nicholas investigates the current status of Shakespeare in the popular imagination; he talks to representatives from the acting profession, teachers, children and people in the...
Mini-series reworking King Lear and set in the lucrative coal distribution industry of Richards Bay. It depicts the lives of two families torn apart by jealousy, greed and deception and incorporates the...
Short. A satire on the film industry as if it existed in Elizabethan times. Film director William Shakespeare shoots HAMLET in one reel and in one take. When he screens his 15-minute film for the studio...
Will Keen, who plays the title role opposite Anastasia Hille’s Lady Macbeth in the 2010 Cheek by Jowl production directed by Declan Donnellan at the Barbican in London, talks to Heather Neill about playing...
Declan Donnellan, artistic director of Cheek by Jowl, talks to Heather Neill about his creative partnership with designer Nick Ormerod, working with young actors, rehearsal methods and about his current...
Martin Jarvis reads the ‘William and the Lost Tourist’ from William the Conquerer written by Richmal Crompton. Learning a speech from Julius Caesar proves unexpectedly useful in coming to the assistance...
Television documentary. Joan Bakewell visits Stratford-upon-Avon where Shakespeare has become the object of adoration, scholarship and commerce as the heritage industry grows. She visits his supposed...
Philip Fisher talks to Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett, joint-artistic directors of the British theatre company Frantic Assembly, about their radical new vision of Shakespeare’s Othello playing at the...
Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett looks at the publication of the First Folio and speaks to Professor Emma Rice, whose books include, Shakespeare’s First Folio.