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Verb: Live Broadcast

Synopsis
Poet Ian McMillan hosts late night entertainment with a roundtable of writers celebrating Shakespeare’s language. Benet Brandreth, a rhetoric coach, has written a new novel imagining Shakespeare’s lost years and Nell Lyshon imagines a fictional meeting with Cervantes who died on the same day in 1616. Plus actor Ben Crystal and poet Wendy Cope with her new poems, commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Series
Verb, The
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Radio
Subjects
Drama; English language and literature
Keywords
poetry; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Credits

Contributor
Ben Crystal; Benet Brandreth; Ian McMillan; Neil Lyshon; Wendy Cope

Archive

Name

BoB

Email
bob@learningonscreen.ac.uk
Web
https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand External site opens in new window
Phone
020 3743 2345
Address
Learning on Screen - the British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council
330 Holborn Gate
1st Floor, Suite 120
London
WC1V 7QH
Notes
Formerly a service from BUFVC, British Universities Film & Video Council
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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