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Radio broadcast. Isn’t silent Shakespeare an oxymoron? All that’s nuanced, beautiful, meaningful in the poetry - silenced. Yet between 1899 and 1927, when the first commercial sound film was released,...
Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Nashville he watched Henry V set during the Civil War.Composer Stephen Sondheim and actor Alec Baldwin contribute....
Radio broadcast. Matt Lucas explores Shakespeare’s comedies and examines whether they have an influence on current humour. Today we interpret comedy from a different perspective than 400 years ago - comedy...
Presented by Andrew MacGregor. Roger Parker recommends a recording of Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff.
Explores the ways in which Shakespeare’s verse has been performed on disc. With actors Hugh Quarshie and Samuel West and Shakespeare scholar Kate Kennedy.
Radio broadcast. Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith are the readers in a sequence of texts and music inspired by one of Shakespeare’s favourite themes: the power of royalty and monarchy as a metaphor...
Music magazine series. Tom Service explores the music in Shakespeare’s plays and Shakespearean music from the BBC archives, with composer Gary Carpenter and theatre historian Sarah Lenton.
Radio broadcast. Pianist Richard Sisson attempts to perform music from every Shakespeare play, with pianist Ashley Wass, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, baritone Mark Stone and the BBC Singers.
Radio broadcast live from King Edward VI School. The BBC Concert Orchestra join presenter Matthew Sweet live on stage for 60 minutes of music from Shakespeare on film. Including music from one of the great...
Alyn Shipton presents listeners’ requests as well as music from surprise guests, as part of Radio 3’s Sounds of Shakespeare weekend. Listeners join Alyn from the audience to introduce their requests on...
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