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First episode in a three-part radio series exploring the story of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. In the first programme, presenter James Naughtie explores the ethos of the ensemble,...
Second episode in a three-part radio series exploring the story of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Presenter James Naughtie looks at the RSC’s formative first decade interviewing...
Last episode in a three-part radio series exploring the story of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. In the final programme, presenter James Naughtie focuses on the role of the theatre...
Dominic Arkwright charts the rise and fall of Thomas Middleton. He wrote stories of murder, incest and sexual blackmail in the backstreets of London occasionally out-selling Shakespeare at the box office....
Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and guests Jonathan Bate, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama at the...
Radio feature. Author and historian Jerry Brotton investigates the history of relations between England and the Islamic world during the early modern period, a complex alliance that he finds dramatised in...
Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones, Professor John Sutherland and textual scholar Grace Ioppolo examine what we do know about the life of William Shakespeare. How was...
Radio broadcast. Writer Iain Sinclair walks the streets of London in the company of historians, scholars and archaeologists, seeking out Shakespeare’s city in the London of today. He visits the court, the...
Radio programme. Presenter Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Frank Kermode, director Michael Bogdanov, and Professor Germaine Greer discuss the work of Shakespeare. Does Ben Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare...
As part of the Radio 3 arts programme broadcast on 12 November 1970, critic Michael Billington speaks to theatre and opera director Jonathan Miller about some of the staging difficulties for a production of...
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