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9 results found for '"Book of the Week"' in Series.

  • This Orient Isle. Episode 5 (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    David Roper

    Radio broadcast. Professor Jerry Brotton examines Queen Elizabeth I’s fascination with the Orient and Britain’s first contacts with the Muslim world. Read by Derek Jacobi. 5: How the London stage...

  • Year of the Fat Knight (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Clive Brill

    Radio broadcast. Antony Sher reads from ‘The Year of the Fat Knight’, his account of rehearsing and performing the role of Falstaff in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2014 production of Henry IV Parts...

  • 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. 1: The Theatre (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Gaynor Macfarlane

    Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....

  • 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. 2: The Gunpowder Plot (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Gaynor Macfarlane

    Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....

  • 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. 3: Plague (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Gaynor Macfarlane

    Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....

  • 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. 4: Religion (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Gaynor Macfarlane

    Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....

  • Lodger, The: Shakespeare on Silver Street (2007 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week

    5-part serialised reading of Charles Nicholl’s book The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street. Marshalling evidence from a wide variety of sources, including the previously unknown documentary material,...

  • Will in the World (2004 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Emma Harding

    Radio series. A five-part daily reading (4-8/10/2004) from Stephen Greenblatt’s book Will in the World investigating Shakespeare’s life, work and the times he lived in. Abridged by Miranda Davies. Read...

  • Gielgud’s Letters (2004 Audio, Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Emma Harding

    First episode in a five-part series of selected readings from John Gielgud’s correspondences through the decades. The episode focuses on Gielgud playing the lead in the 1936 production of Hamlet on...