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Poetry celebration of Shakespeare with focus on his sonnets and the use of poetry in his plays. Poetry readings by actors Ion Caramitru and Michael Pennington. The following sonnets and extracts were read at...
Radio broadcast. In a special edition of the poetry programme, presenter Roger McGough revisits some of the poetry readings recorded for the programme in 1998 by the late Paul Scofield and Juliet Stevenson....
Radio broadcast. A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of circles, curves and contours, with readings from Deborah Findlay and Hugh Fraser. Including texts by Shakespeare, Tennyson, Emily...
Radio 3 poetry series. Christopher Ricks explores some short poems worth remembering. The first episode focuses on Frances Cornford’s ‘Childhood’ and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73.
Radio series. To celebrate the BBC’s November Shakespeare season, presenter Roger McGough introduces requests for verse by Shakespeare. Sonnets and excerpts read by Fiona Shaw and Barrie Rutter. (30 minutes)
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the theme of mirrors and reflections, variously showing the mirror as a symbol of vanity, self-examination and the limits of human understanding....
Radio programme marking 85 years of weather forecasting on the BBC with poetry and music. The programme includes an excerpt from Shakespeare’s King Lear ('Blow wind and crack your cheeks’) read by Mark...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of ancient Greece. The second part of the programme opens with programme an excerpt from the opening to Troilus and Cressida read by...
Documentary film. Petter Amundsen believes that he has discovered a unique set of codes hidden in The Tempest that prove that Shakespeare was an illiterate actor, and that Francis Bacon in collaboration with...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the warrior, from classical heroes to more contemporary soldiers. The programme opens with extracts from Henry V, read by and Don...
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