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American satirical programme focusing on politics and the national media. This edition includes a report named Scamalot (c4 mins) on the current MP’s expenses scandal in Britain. John Oliver, the show’s...
BBC currents affairs series in which parliamentary reports are presented by Andrew Neil and Jenny Scott. This edition reported on the Labour Party Conference, the last conference with Tony Blair as leader....
Daily podcast. In this edition, host Andrew Keen interviews Richard Blanding on his book, In Shakespeare’s Shadow: A Rogue Scholar’s Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Work. The book posits that...
The most personal document relating to the life of William Shakespeare that remains is his last will and testament. Researcher Bonner Miller Cutting looked at some 3,000 wills from Shakespeare’s day, and...
Radio series. A five-part daily reading (4-8/10/2004) from Stephen Greenblatt’s book Will in the World investigating Shakespeare’s life, work and the times he lived in. Abridged by Miranda Davies. Read...
Daily current affairs show. This episode focuses on the closed world of women in Afghanistan with the story of a Canadian director, Corinne Jaber, and her staging of Love’s Labour’s Lost in Kabul....
Radio broadcast. Scenes from Romeo and Juliet, starring with Sybil Thorndike as the Nurse. Narrator: George Hagan.
Radio broadcast. Scenes from Macbeth with Flora Robson as Lady Macbeth. Narration and speech links by Wensley Pithey.
Radio broadcast. Extracts (Act III Sc. i & Act IV sc. ii) from Henry VIII featuring Edith Evans as Katherine of Aragon.
5-part serialised reading of Charles Nicholl’s book The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street. Marshalling evidence from a wide variety of sources, including the previously unknown documentary material,...