Learning on ScreenShakespeare’s Restless World: Sex and the City
- Synopsis
- Twelfth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences made sense of their rapidly changing environment.
In this episode MacGregor explores the world’s view of Venice during Shakespeare’s lifetime, examining a glass goblet from c.1590. - Series
- Shakespeare’s Restless World
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Transmission details
- 1 May 2012 at 13:45 (Channel: BBC Radio 4)
- Duration
- 15 mins
Credits
- Producer
- Paul Kobrak
- Contributor
- Dora Thornton; Luca Mola; Neil MacGregor
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Plays
- Merchant of Venice, The
- Subjects
- Drama; History
- Keywords
- industry; sexuality; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Venice; Cultural history
Notes
- Notes
- The entire series is available on CD from http://www.bbcshop.com and as a podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r4shakespeare.
- History
- Part of the Shakespeare Unlocked season on BBC.
- Reviews
- Source: Radio Times, BBC programme information
For more detail about the programme and its objects (including transcript) see the BBC Restless world website http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/shakespeares-restless-world/ (accessed May 2012)
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Archive
- Name
BoB
- bob@learningonscreen.ac.uk
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- Phone
- 020 3743 2345
- Address
- Learning on Screen - the British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council
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London
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- Formerly a service from BUFVC, British Universities Film & Video Council
- Name
British Library Sound Archive
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- 020 7412 7676
- Fax
- 020 7412 7441
- Address
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- Name
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- services@bufvc.ac.uk
- Web
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- Phone
- 020 7393 1514
- Fax
- 020 7393 1555
- Address
- For Learning on Screen Members only
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