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Radio programme in which Michael Innes investigates ‘the violent and more or less mysterious deaths’ of the potential inheritors to the throne of Denmark in his capacity as Shakespearean scholar and...
Documentary short which accompanied the U.S. broadcast of FALSTAFF (Unitel, 13/12/1985). It compares the treatment of The Merry Wives of Windsor by Verdi and Orson Welles, the former represented by clips...
Writer and diplomat Salvador de Madariaga reads extracts from his Spanish translation of Hamlet and adds a commentary.
Actor Robert Stephens and writer Kathy Lette discuss the character of Iago. Stephens believes that Iago is not Shakespeare’s greatest villain and to play him well the actor must empathise with his...
English historian C.V. Wedgwood reviews Spanish writer and diplomat Salvador de Madariaga’s book on Hamlet.
Recording of a live / interactive virtual reality project from the RSC using motion capture in which audiences were able to join Puck in a journey through a forest setting inspired by Shakespeare’s A...
Poet Ian McMillan hosts late night entertainment with a celebration of what Shakespeare can tell future generations - about animals, sound, performance and language. With actor Paterson Joseph, grime poet...
Writer and critic John Elsom talks to administrators, directors and politicians about how financial and bureaucratic organisation affects what appears on the stage. He looks at changes in organisation since...
Literary review programme which includes an item on Shakespeare as script-writer, contributed by Alan Dent, who has been working with Laurence Olivier on the script of HAMLET and HENRY V. Dent also reviews...
The West Indian historian C L R James talks about King Lear and why Shakespeare, ‘the most political writer that Britain has ever seen in regard to the creative arts’, was ‘no racist’. He quotes...
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