Rose Theatre preservation
- Title
- Rose Theatre preservation
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 16 Jun 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
- Play audio
- To listen to the audio files, please log in.
- Duration
- 00:02:06
- Description
- Developers have moved into the site of the Rose Theatre in Southwark, London today and are covering the remains of the Elizabethan theatre with a layer of sand and concrete to protect it whilst an office block is built. Simon Bowden spoke to actor and campaigner Ian McKellen at the site and asked him what was going on. The site has been denied ancient monument status by Environment Secretary Nicholas Ridley.
- Contributors
- Ian McKellen; Simon Bowden
- Keywords
- London; Southwark; Historic buildings; Building construction; Urban development; Heritage conservation; English Heritage; Ancient monuments; Nicholas Ridley; Rose Theatre
The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.
Record Stats
This record has been viewed 309 times.