Twenty Minutes: The Adverb [09/09/2007]

Synopsis: Radio programme. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ literary interval programme Paul Allen’s guest is the writer and former diplomat Rory Stewart who chooses his favourite writing about the rhetoric of war, including an extract from Hamlet, and reads a specially-written piece of his own on the same theme.
Series: Twenty Minutes
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 9 Aug 2007 at 19:50 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
Duration: 20 mins

Notes: Recorded before a live audience at the Cadogan Hall, London.
General: According to BBC Radio 3 Publicity information,
"The guests’ choices range across a panoply of authors and poets, fiction and non-fiction, but at their core is a key Shakespearean speech which reflects one of his major pre-occupations, whether it be leadership, envy, war, or other key motifs of the plays" (19/7/2007).
History: Part of the series of TWENTY MINUTE episodes inspired by the Shakespeare theme of the 2007 BBC Proms season.

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