Radio 3’s Shakespeare Day - Compilation Tape

Synopsis: Extracts include: Sonnet 130 read by dairy farmer, Norman, on his tractor. - Trail for As You Like It with Helena Bonham Carter and David Morrissey. - Sonnet 2 read by Vicki Wilson at South Tyneside College. - Extract from Richard III with Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt.- Sonnet 27 read by pilot Stephen Leggott. -`Masterclass’ with Fiona Shaw - recorded at the Central School of Speech and Drama with a live audience. Actors involved are Susan Brown, Paul Bhattacharjee, Tom George, Clare Cathcart and Antony Ryding.- Sonnet 65 read by Lisa, on Bournemouth Pier, - extract from Richard II with Samuel West as Richard II and James Laurenson as Northumberland. Sonnet 128 read by Dongah Curwen at her contemporary dance class.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Audio
Year of release: 2000
Transmission details: (Channel: BBC Radio 3)

Cast

Samuel West	King Richard II
Joss Ackland	John of Gaunt
Antony Ryding
Clare Cathcart
David Morrisey
Fiona Shaw
Helena Bonham-Carter
James Laurenson	Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Paul Bhattacharjee
Susan Brown
Tom George

Production type: Advertising/Trailers/Promos
Plays: Richard II
Subjects: Drama; Literature
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Central School of Speech and Drama

General: Issued to promote BBC Radio 3’s Shakespeare Day transmitted 23 April 2000