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  1. Shakespeare’s Fire (2015 Radio)

    Director
    Frank Stirling
    Producer
    Frank Stirling

    Radio drama by Glynn Maxwell. On a hot summer day the King’s Men in Southwark are performing ‘The Life of King Henry VIII’. The same day in June the Globe theatre burned down. There are many eye...

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  2. Pattern of Painful Adventures, The (2008 Radio)

    Series
    Drama on 3
    Director
    Jeremy Mortimer
    Producer
    Jeremy Mortimer

    Radio play written by Stephen Wakelam. It is 1607, business is going well but Shakespeare (Sher) urgently needs a collaborator for his latest work. His daughter (Longworth) is about to marry and his brother...

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  3. Shakespeare’s Happy Endings (2005 Television)

    Director
    Stephen Leslie
    Producer
    Ben Evans

    A comic account, part documentary, part staged performance, of some of the bowlderisations of Shakespeare’s plays in the history of the theatre. Presenter Patrick Barlow talks of a 1681 production of King...

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  4. King of Shadows (2003 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Director
    Gaynor Macfarlane

    Radio play by Susan Cooper, dramatised by Beatrice Colin. A magical adventure story set partly in the present day and partly in Elizabethan England. Chosen to play Puck in a production of A Midsummer...

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  5. Gratuitous Sex and Violence: Shakespeare 1601 AD (2002 Multimedia, Television)

    Series
    History Bites, Series

    Canadian comedy sketch show based on the premise ‘what if television had been around for the past 5,000 years’. Each episode explores a particular day in history and the result is a history lesson....

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  6. Merely Players (1996 Radio)

    Series
    Monday Play, The
    Director
    Don Taylor

    Radio play by Don Taylor. Asked by one of the Earl of Essex’s agents to stage Richard II, William Shakespeare (Michael Pennington) and other members of the Globe Theatre Company are drawn into a conspiracy...

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  7. Meeting in Valladolid, A (1991 Radio)

    Director
    Walter Acosta

    Radio play by Anthony Burgess based on his short story of the same name. The story tells of a meeting between Shakespeare and Cervantes while the King’s Men entertain at an Anglo-Spanish peace conference...

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  8. I, William Shakespeare (1982 Radio)

    Director
    John Powell (2)
    Producer
    John Powell (2)

    A ‘radiography’ written by John Wilders and John Powell, constructing Shakespeare’s life in his own words and images. "Part documentary, part drama, and part ‘musical’, this Elizabethan spectacular...

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  9. Dead Shepherd (1978 Television)

    Series
    Will Shakespeare
    Director
    Peter Wood
    Producer
    Cecil Clarke; Peter Roden

    Television serial, in six episodes, on the life and times of William Shakespeare. Writer John Mortimer based each episode around events in Shakespeare’s life to suggest how they influenced his writing. In...

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  10. Alms for Oblivion (1978 Television)

    Series
    Will Shakespeare
    Director
    Mark Cullingham
    Producer
    Cecil Clarke; Peter Roden

    Television series, in six episodes, on the life and times of William Shakespeare. Writer John Mortimer based each episode around events in Shakespeare’s life to suggest how they influenced his writing. In...

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