Twenty Minutes: The Adverb [09/09/2007]

Synopsis
Radio programme. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ literary interval programme Paul Allen’s guest is the writer and former diplomat Rory Stewart who chooses his favourite writing about the rhetoric of war, including an extract from Hamlet, and reads a specially-written piece of his own on the same theme.
Series
Twenty Minutes
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Radio
Notes
Recorded before a live audience at the Cadogan Hall, London.
Subjects
Drama; Literature
Keywords
rhetoric; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); war

Credits

Contributor
Paul Allen; Rory Stewart

Production Company

Name

BBC

Notes
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Archive

Name

British Library Sound Archive

Email
listening@bl.uk
Web
http://www.bl.uk/nsa External site opens in new window
Phone
020 7412 7676
Fax
020 7412 7441
Address
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
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