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Transmitted live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Olivia Fuchs’s production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is presented by Stephanie Hughes. Richard Hickox conducts...
Fay Weldon’s specially commissioned story takes Hermione from A Winter’s Tale and gives her a modern day dilemma no less dramatic than the original. Read by Eleanor Bron.
Set in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, 1563, and narrated from Shylock’s perspective, this rewriting of Shakespeare’s play by British playwright Arnold Wesker retains the core plot of Shakespeare’s play...
Radio programme on English bawdy presented by Tim Brooke-Taylor. Celebrates the history of bawdy from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Benny Hill and the ‘Carry On’ films. It asks what do Shakespeare and...
Radio programme. Edward Seckerson discusses the role of Shakespeare in the Broadway musical, including music from Kiss Me Kate, West Side Story and The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Radio programme. A two-part series in which Humphrey Carpenter investigates the attraction of Shakespeare for musicians and composers. Part 1 claims that Shakespeare’s works have inspired over 20,000...
Radio programme. Julian Evans talks to American scholar and writer Harold Bloom about the character of Falstaff, a subject Bloom discussed in his book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human.
Radio broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The Metropolitan Opera and Chorus is conducted by James Levine. Bryn Terfel is Falstaff.
Radio drama. Three prominent writers (Will Self, Bonnie Greer and Ali Smith) encounter the figures whom they regard as iconic. Bonnie Greer meets Shakespeare’s Dark Lady, Will Self meets Dorian Gray and...
Radio documentary. Twice a week for almost ten years 61-year-old actor Bob Smith (author of the memoir Hamlet’s Dresser) has travelled to New York City from his home in Connecticut to read Shakespeare with...
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