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Radio programme in which Asian American writer Zulfikar Ghose talks about producing Shakespeare in Bombay, his production of Hamlet, and actor/producer Shasi Kapoor’s plans to start the first Indian...
Storytelling. Kevin Eldon reads What Do You Say?, a twisted tale about a man driven to insanity by a repetitive stranger. In Fakespeare, written by Toby Davies and narrated by Rebecca Front, a writer of...
Best-selling writer, Bernard Cornwell discusses his new book "Fools and Mortals". In the novel, Corwell imagines the very first production of Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream".
The second track on a collection of variety sketches by Viennese cabaret artist, writer, actor, director Karl Farkas (1893-1971) focuses on the fate of great works of art, such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The...
Andrew Dickson, art editor of the ‘Guardian’ website,and Peter Kirwan, writer of the Bardathon theatre review blog, talk about how blogs have changed the art of reviewing Shakespeare productions.
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.
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