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18 results found for '"Sunday Feature"' in Series.

  • Jig into History, A (2023 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Tom Alban

    Radio broadcast. Professor Nandini Das explores what happened to the clown Will Kemp when he left Shakespeare’s acting Company, The Lord Chamberlain’s men, and set out in 1599 on a wagered Morris dance,...

  • Shakespeare’s Brum Ting (2023 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Tom Alban

    Radio broadcast. Shakespeare scholar Islam Issa highlights a new civic pride that’s encouraging the people of Birmingham to realise the significance of their city’s unique Shakespearean legacy....

  • Shakespeare’s Rival (2023 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Leonie Thomas

    Radio broadcast. Professor Nandini Das explores how the life and works of Robert Greene can offer us new insight into what English theatre might have been, beyond the shadow of Shakespeare. Controbutors...

  • Exit Burbage (2018 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Penny Murphy

    Radio broadcast. Andrew Dickson profiles the actor Richard Burbage, who starred in many of Shakespeare’s plays when first performed. Now forgotten, he was a huge star in his day and many of Shakespeare’s...

  • Do Terrorists Have a Problem with Shakespeare? (2018 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Sara Jane Hall

    Radio broadcast. This edition of Sunday Feature is made of two items - the first is ‘Is it wrong to have children? and the second is ‘Do terrorists have a problem with Shakespeare? in which Dr Islam...

  • First Folio Road Trip (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Beaty Rubens

    Radio broadcast. Professor Emma Smith travels across Britain and to France and follows the story of seven of the 750 original copies of the First Folio to learn how Shakespeare’s work was disseminated.

  • Still Will (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Alan Hall

    Radio series showcasing feature reports and discussions on cultural subjects. For a poet and playwright whose virtuosic way with words continue to dominate English literature, there’s an extraordinary and...

  • Looking for the Moor (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Roger James Elsgood

    Radio broadcast. In preparing to take on the role of Othello for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hugh Quarshie goes in search of the wisdom of others about the ethical conundrums of a black actor playing the...

  • Shakespeare: For and Against (2014 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Matt Willis

    As celebrations begin to mark Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, playwright Mark Ravenhill challenges the adulation of the playwright and asks: Is Shakespeare’s genius beyond question? Exploring the...

  • Elisabeth Scott, Architect (2011 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Beaty Rubens

    Radio documentary on the architect Elisabeth Scott who designed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Scott beat more than 70 contenders for the commision at a time when women her age didn’t have the vote....