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Shakespeare and the American Dream. Part 1 (2016 Radio)

aka: Shakespeare in Obama’s America

Series

Compass: Shakespeare in the World

Producer

Maggie Ayre

Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Nashville he watched Henry V set during the Civil War.Composer Stephen Sondheim and actor Alec Baldwin contribute....

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Excellent Dumb Discourse: Shakespeare in Silence, An (2016 Radio)

Producer

Matt Thompson

Radio broadcast. Isn’t silent Shakespeare an oxymoron? All that’s nuanced, beautiful, meaningful in the poetry - silenced. Yet between 1899 and 1927, when the first commercial sound film was released,...

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Shakespeare and Stratford (2016 Radio)

Series

Twenty Minutes

Radio broadcast. When did Stratford and the country at large really begin to celebrate Shakespeare? Radio 3 presenter Suzy Klein is in conversation with Professors Michael Dobson and Ewan Fernie of the...

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Garrick Ode (2016 Radio)

Series

Radio 3 in Concert

A world premiere commemorative concert in Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon. Ex Cathedra, conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore, perform Thomas Arne’s 18th- century musical setting of An Ode to Shakespeare by...

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Sounds of Shakespeare, The (2016 Radio)

BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service charts the magical chemistry between Shakespeare’s language and the music it has given life to over the last 400 years - from Romeo and Juliet to The Tempest.

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Shakespeare Masque, A (2016 Radio)

Series

Radio 3 in Concert

A Shakespeare Masque, written by the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and composed by Sally Beamish. Ex Cathedra and City Musick are conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

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Baba Ganoush (2016 Radio)

Series

Sonnets in the City

Director

Gary Brown

Producer

Gary Brown

Short drama by Tom Wells with specially commissioned music by Tom Coult. The first of five dramas in response to Shakespeare’s sonnets beginning with Sonnet 29. Lee arrives late to the pop-up restaurant...

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Big Time (2016 Radio)

Series

Drama

Producer

Tim Dee

Radio play by Jonathan Holloway. Shakespeare died 400 years ago on the same day as the Spanish writer Cervantes - except they didn’t. The calendars of the two countries were ten days apart. Cervantes plots...

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Tattered Heart (2016 Radio)

Series

Sonnets in the City

Director

Charlotte Riches

Producer

Charlotte Riches

Short drama by Francesca Martinez in response to Shakespeare’s sonnet no. 61. Music by Nina Whiteman. Maxine Peake reads "Is it thy will, thy image should keep open/My heavy eyelids to the weary night?".

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Verb: Live Broadcast, The (2016 Radio)

Series

Verb, The

Poet Ian McMillan hosts late night entertainment with a roundtable of writers celebrating Shakespeare’s language. Benet Brandreth, a rhetoric coach, has written a new novel imagining Shakespeare’s lost...

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