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Series on literature presented by Robert Robinson. This episode includes an item in which Robinson introduces Judith Cook’s book Women in Shakespeare. An interview with historian and literary scholar A.L....
Sonnet 87 read in costume by John Hurt, followed by a discussion of the Sonnet by Dr Nicholas Humphrey. Dr Humphries argues that although the sonnet looks a love poem, it more accurately describes the deep...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The majority of Shakespeare’s plays call for singing and while the lyrics to the songs appear to have always been a part of the text, the musical notes...
Video of 5 Shakespearean monologues, each in a different Nigerian language (with English subtitles), featuring the JOS repertory company of Nigeria. These include: Macbeth in Pidgin English narrated by...
Eight-part television series on the history of the English language, written and presented by Melvyn Bragg. Episode 4 discusses some of the greatest English texts, including the first English dictionary and...
Radio series in six parts. Each part features one sonnet read by an actor and commented on by a contemporary poets including Seamus Heaney, Miroslav Holub, Peter Porter, Brace Nichols, and Thom Gunn. No...
An experimental interpretation of Hamlet. "Hamlet is placed at the centre of the maelstrom and Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius and all the other players circle around him. As Hamlet floats on the waves they swim...
Radio programme on the theme of different times of the day. This episode ends with Romeo and Juliet debating whether the bird they can hear is a nightingale or a lark (III v) that heralds the beginning of a...
Radio programme. In the second of her 5-part series of essays considering our responses to the creatures which make up the British landscape, the writer and poet Ruth Padel turns her attention to the robin....
Schools programme. Seamus Heaney talks about Macbeth exploring some of the key themes and characters. "The whole language and imagery of the play imitates and expresses this world of deception and...
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