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Accompanying event to the British Library’s ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition. A lecture by Peter Brook with questions from the audience.
A recording made at the Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre in 1998 of Ken Campbell explaining his translation of Macbeth into Wol Wantok. The full recording is available to listen to at the British Library...
Excerpts produced for a school audience. Shows Mark Antony and Brutus in the Forum following Caesar’s murder (III ii). The London Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Muir Matheson.
Radio broadcast. Professor Emma Smith travels across Britain and to France and follows the story of seven of the 750 original copies of the First Folio to learn how Shakespeare’s work was disseminated.
In this radio programme Derek Jacobi, who played Hamlet in the BBC TV production, gives a personal introduction to the play. He examines the many interpretations of a role that has been regarded as the...
Recording of a live streaming event. An exploration of the role of women in Shakespeare’s plays, featuring actor Adjoa Andoh, historian Andy Kesson, Dr Vanessa Lim and event chair Dr Wanda Wyporska.
Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week looks at how the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays was actually manufactured in 1623...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. When the British came to colonise the African continent in the middle of the 1800s, they brought Shakespeare with them. But after the British left power, it was...
Radio broadcast. Andrew Dickson profiles the actor Richard Burbage, who starred in many of Shakespeare’s plays when first performed. Now forgotten, he was a huge star in his day and many of Shakespeare’s...
Melvyn Bragg and his guests Alison Findlay, Helen Hackett and Tom Healy discuss Shakespeare’s comedy.
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