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BBC’s arts radio programme. Philip Dodd presents a special edition devoted to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. He discusses its continuing resonance with the writer and director Jonathan Miller who first...
Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Brian Cummings. Cummings argues that the biography of Shakespeare is a paradox. Is he our...
Third in the series of programmes on Elizabethan England. Cookery writer and chef Prue Leith discusses Elizabethan cuisine.
A series of six one-man plays written and performed by actor/comedian/writer John Sessions and recorded at London’s Half Moon Theatre. In this second episode, an American tourist visits Shakespeare’s...
Radio broadcast. Critic and writer Hilary Finch looks at the influence of Shakespeare on Verdi’s Rigoletto.
Chinese writer and actress Tsai Chin talks about her life in Shanghai, London and New York and her return to China to direct a production of The Tempest. Includes a brief extract from the production (in...
BBC Radio 4 series in which famous villains are given a re-trial. In this episode politician and writer Roy Hattersley argues that Shakespeare’s Richard III was the victim of a press conspiracy.
A week of programmes celebrating the theatre’s contribution to cultural life. Actor, writer and director Steven Berkoff discusses performances and presents characters from his plays - Decadence, East,...
Author and screen writer William Boyd in conversation with Shakespeare scholar Katherine Duncan-Jones. Boyd talks about his screenplay for A WASTE OF SHAME, a television drama about the background to...
Actor John Nettles and writer Kathy Lette discuss whether Shylock is a blood-thirsty money lender or a victim of racial prejudice. John Nettles argues that Shylock’s need for revenge is understandable when...
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