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Nowhere is Dylan Thomas’s language more rich and fantastic than in his best-known work, Under Milk Wood. He was also a popular radio entertainer and the BBC Archives contain a wealth of material featuring...
Radio programme. Presenter Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Frank Kermode, Professor/poet Phillis Levin, and Professor Jonathan Bate discuss the Sonnet and its poetic relevance. What is it about the Sonnet...
Radio 3 poetry series. Christopher Ricks explores some short poems worth remembering. The first episode focuses on Frances Cornford’s ‘Childhood’ and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73.
Eight-part television series, the aim of which was to explore ‘how far television can be used to allow the poem itself to work undisturbedly on the reader-listener’. In episode 7, Professor I.A. Richards...
Podcast of a Thursday lecture held at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. Professor Russ McDonald proposes a new framework for examining the sonnets: Elizabethan visual design of the 16th...
Radio programme. Poet and musician Musa Okwonga explains how Shakespeare’s Othello mirrored his experience of isolation as a young black British-Ugandan growing up in a predominantly white environment....
Eight-part television series, the aim of which was to explore ‘how far television can be used to allow the poem itself to work undisturbedly on the reader-listener’. Professor I.A Richards discusses The...
Fourth of a five-part series of radio essays exploring Shakespeare’s portrayal of love and how his work affects perceptions of love. In this episode, Professor Helen Hackett reflects on the enduring power...
Poetry celebration of Shakespeare with focus on his sonnets and the use of poetry in his plays. Poetry readings by actors Ion Caramitru and Michael Pennington. The following sonnets and extracts were read at...
Panel discussion about the differing imperatives of the historian and the creative artist in response to the First World War. Richard Ormond is an art historian, co-author of the John Singer Sargent...
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