Verb: Live Broadcast, The
- Synopsis
- Poet Ian McMillan hosts late night entertainment with a roundtable of writers celebrating Shakespeare’s language. Benet Brandreth, a rhetoric coach, has written a new novel imagining Shakespeare’s lost years and Nell Lyshon imagines a fictional meeting with Cervantes who died on the same day in 1616. Plus actor Ben Crystal and poet Wendy Cope with her new poems, commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
- Series
- Verb, The
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Transmission details
- 22 Apr 2016 at 20:00 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
- Duration
- 45 mins
Credits
- Contributor
- Ben Crystal; Benet Brandreth; Ian McMillan; Neil Lyshon; Wendy Cope
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Subjects
- Drama; English language and literature
- Keywords
- poetry; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- General
- Part of BBC Radio’s The Sounds of Shakespeare broadcasting live all weekend from a pop-up studio at The Other Place foyer, with free ticketed events on stage in The Other Place Studio Theatre.
Archive
- Name
BoB
- bob@learningonscreen.ac.uk
- Web
- https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 3743 2345
- Address
- Learning on Screen - the British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council
330 Holborn Gate
1st Floor, Suite 120
London
WC1V 7QH - Notes
- Formerly a service from BUFVC, British Universities Film & Video Council
- Name
British Library Sound Archive
- listening@bl.uk
- Web
- http://www.bl.uk/nsa External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7412 7676
- Fax
- 020 7412 7441
- Address
- 96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Verb: Live Broadcast, The". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av77005 (Accessed 25 Nov 2024)