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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....