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BBC radio morning magazine programme presented by Jack de Manio. Includes a short item on Peter, a budgerigar at Guildford Public Library, who can speak the lines ‘to be or not to be’ and’friends,...
BBC Radio 4’s current affairs programme presented by John Humphreys and James Naughtie. This edition features Ian McMillan’s poem, ‘Shakespeare rules Britain’, written specially for the part of the...
Current affairs radio series with John Humphrys. This edition reports on the ‘new’ court poem ‘To The Queen’. The poem has recently been given scholarly imprimateur and included in the new edition of...
Radio current affairs and news programme. In this four minute item correspondent Raymond Buchanan reports on what happens if you combine two cultural icons, Shakespeare and the Beatles. Chris O’Neill, a...
Radio current affairs and news programme presented by John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Includes an item, introduced by Humphrys, that reports on Ian McKellen recording a few lines from Sonnet 18 ‘Shall I...
Topical magazine show presented by Eamonn Andrews. Shows Marianne Faithfull rehearsing her role as Ophelia with Nicol Williamson as Hamlet. The television programme was recorded on stage at the Roundhouse.
Radio broadcast. As part of the ‘Shakespeare today’ season, magazine programme presenters by John Tidmarsh and Barbara Myers travel to Stratford-upon-Avon. The programme includes a behind-the-scenes talk...
Documentary radio programme in which presenter John Pickford explores Shakespeare’s role as national poet and the different versions of Englishness he presents.
In this 5-minute item from a longer programme, presenter Evan Davis hears from theatre critic Michael Billington on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of Hamlet, starring Doctor Who actor David...
Radio broadcast. In this edition of the news programme, presented by Elizabeth Blair, an 8 minute item argues that if Shakespeare were alive today he would be in real estate. Patrick Stewart notes that...
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