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  1. Shakespeare and the American Dream. Part 2 (2016 Radio)

    aka: Shakespeare in Obama’s America

    Series
    Compass: Shakespeare in the World
    Producer
    Maggie Ayre

    Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Washington he discovers that his plays are used to discuss ideas of power and politics. He meets Stephen Sondheim...

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  2. Is Shakespeare Always Political? (2016 Audio)

    Accompanying event to the British Library’s ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition. The panellists discuss the political themes within Shakespeare’s plays and consider how he voiced the political...

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  3. Shakespeare’s Restless World: Life Without Elizabeth (2012 Radio)

    Series
    Shakespeare’s Restless World
    Producer
    Paul Kobrak

    Fourth 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...

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  4. Shakespeare’s Restless World: Treason and Plots (2012 Radio)

    Series
    Shakespeare’s Restless World
    Producer
    Paul Kobrak

    Eleventh 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...

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  5. Shakespeare’s Restless World: The Flag That Failed (2012 Radio)

    Series
    Shakespeare’s Restless World
    Producer
    Paul Kobrak

    Fifteenth 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...

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  6. Hollow Crowns (2012 Television)

    Series
    Simon Schama’s Shakespeare
    Director
    Ashley Gething
    Producer
    Charlotte Sacher

    Documentary. Simon Schama concludes his two-part documentary looking at Shakespeare’s attitudes towards kingship. The programmes focuses on Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Henry V and Richard II. Includes...

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  7. Speaker’s Progress, The (2011 Video)

    Director
    Sulayman al-Bassam

    Video recording of the play by Suleyman Al-Bassam. . In a totalitarian state somewhere in the Arab World, all forms of theatre have been banned, but a condemned 1960’s classic play has become the focal...

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  8. Broadcasting House [07/06/2009] (2009 Radio)

    Series
    Broadcasting House

    Radio magazine programme. Steve Evans presents the show and discusses the recent political scandal of MP’s expense claims in view of what Shakespeare would have made of them. RSC actor Sam Troughton,...

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  9. Harold Holtzer on Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare (2009 Multimedia, Television, Video)

    Lincoln historian Harold Holzer discusses Abraham Lincoln’s interest in the writings of Shakespeare and his penchant for quoting the playwright and attending his plays. President Lincoln carried a volume...

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  10. I Am Hamlet (2009 Video)

    Director
    Hani Afifi

    A video recording of the play. A version of Hamlet set in contemporary Cairo.

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