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Elsinore: Part 1 (2018 Radio)

Series

Elsinore

Director

Marc Beeby; Sasha Yevtushenko

When his brother, Claudius is captured by the notorious Pirate, Captain True, King Hamlet is sent a ransom demand. At home in Denmark, the seeds of rebellion begin to take root. Elsinore is set in an...

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Elsinore: Part 2 (2018 Radio)

Series

Elsinore

Director

Marc Beeby; Sasha Yevtushenko

After his capture by the pirate Captain True, Claudius returns to Elsinore determined to find out why King Hamlet did not pay the ransom demand. A strange, Danish farmer comes to court to deliver horses as a...

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Elsinore: Part 3 (2018 Radio)

Series

Elsinore

Director

Marc Beeby; Sasha Yevtushenko

Claudius visits the mysterious Kingdom of Carpathia to negotiate the betrothal of the Princess of Carpathia to King Hamlet. The visit unearths disturbing family secrets that involve Claudius and his...

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Elsinore: Part 4 (2018 Radio)

Series

Elsinore

Director

Marc Beeby; Sasha Yevtushenko

Claudius is despatched to Sweden to repatriate the body of the traitor, Lord Anders. He discovers deeply worrying news about a plot by his brother, King Hamlet. Elsinore is set in an alternative Europe of...

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Drama on 3: Love is Not New in This Country (2018 Radio)

Director

Jeremy Mortimer

Producer

Joby Waldman

A radio drama based on the true story of the creation of a Afghan theatre company by the German-Syrian actress and director, Corinne Jaber. It’s 2005 and the Taliban have been defeated in Afghanistan....

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Seven Ages of Love (2018 Radio)

Series

Words and Music

Producer

McLean Fiona

Under the theme of "The Seven Ages of Man"; actors Samuel West and Hattie Morahan perform the poetry of outstanding writers. The programme explores how love changes during the course of a human life. The...

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Measure for Measure (2018 Radio)

Series

Drama on 3

Director

Gaynor Macfarlane

Religion, sex and power interlace in a new radio adaptation of the last comedy written by Shakespeare. The production is introduced by Professor Julie Saunders.

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Gounod - Romeo et Juliette from the Met (2018 Radio)

An operatic adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" by the Charles Gounod. The opera tells the story of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy over five acts and was first performed in 1859. Placido Domingo conducts the...

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What’s in a Name? (2018 Radio)

Series

Something Understood

Producer

Tom Glasser

Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand examines the importance of names drawing from examples ranging from the book of Genesis to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The famous balcony scene is placed under the...

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Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2018 Radio)

The soprano, Eva-Maria Westbroek stars as Katerina Ismailova in Shostakovich’s 20th Century masterpiece. Bored with her life and marriage, Katerina falls for Sergey; a worker in her husband’s factory....

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