Viewfinder Reviews

• Hamlet

  Review type: Audio | Posted on: 18 March 2014

  Susanne Greenhalgh reviews the CD release of this ‘entirety’ production starring John Gielgud.

• America, Empire of Liberty

  Review type: Audio | Posted on: 13 January 2014

  Dr Nicola Pizzolato reviews the second volume in the ninety-part Radio 4 series by David Reynolds.

• Tom Stoppard Radio Plays

  Review type: Audio | Posted on: 9 November 2012

  We consider a new collection of Tom Stoppard’s radio plays.

• English & Irish Authors Read Their Own Work

  Review type: Audio | Posted on: 16 March 2012

  Dr Alexander Beaumont reviews the latest release in the British Library ‘Spoken Word’ series.

• Othello (2010, BBC audio)

  Review type: Audio | Posted on: 12 December 2011

  Is the Lenny Henry ‘Othello’ more celebrity than Shakespeare? Dr Deana Rankin discusses.

• Voices in the UK

  Review type: Audio | Posted on: 24 November 2011

  Professor Paul Kerswill reviews a two-CD set of English dialects as they once were.

• Sylvia Plath

  Review type: Audio | Posted on: 21 October 2011

  A CD compilation that includes previously unreleased material as well as digitally re-mastered recordings of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.