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  • Shakespeare’s Poetic Art (1949 Radio)

    Series
    Art of Poetry, The
    Producer
    J. Isaacs

    Third in a series of programmes on the art of poetry produced by literary historian J. Isaacs. Samples of Shakespeare’s ‘poetic art’ are read by Douglas Leach.

  • Preface to Coriolanus and Other Plays of Shakespeare (1948 Radio)

    Granville Barker’s seminal collection of critical essays on Shakespeare reviewed by George Rylands.

  • How to Appreciate Shakespeare (1947 Radio)

    Producer
    Stephen Potter

    Satirical skit by S. Potter largely based on his book The Muse in Chains: A Study in Education (1937), an attack on methods of teaching English in Universities. The sketch is performed by Celia Johnson and...

  • In the Words of Shakespeare (1946 Radio)

    Series
    In the Words of Shakespeare

    Series of radio programmes compiling "Shakespeare’s expressions of eternal truths, which after three hundred years remain alive and have meaning for us today". No further information known (3/2008).

  • Gedichte und Monologe (1944 Audio)

    aka: Poetry and Monologues

    Producer
    Ruth Walter

    Gramophone recording of actor Stasys Pilka (1898-1976) reciting the Hecuba speech from Hamlet and the Brutus speech from Julius Caesar in Lithuanian.

  • Shakespeare’s Songs (1932 Radio)

    Series
    English Literature: Delight in Poetry, 3

    Schools radio broadcast. Third part of an 8-part English Literature series for senior pupils in which N. Niemeyer introduces poems which will then be read by ‘expert readers’. The focus of this episode...

  • Books Worth Reading (1928 Radio)

    Radio broadcast for schools. As part of this series of talks, two Shakespeare plays are used as the basis of an English literature lesson for 12-14 year old pupils: The Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar....

  • Recital Night (1924 Radio)

    aka: Story Recital of ‘King Lear’

    Radio programme comprised of orchestral music played by The Station Orchestra, followed by a story recital of King Lear by Percival Steeds, and a performance of scenes from Shakespeare’s play, presented by...

  • Hermia and Helena (06/0 Film)

    Director
    Matias Piñeiro
    Producer
    Andrew Adair; Jake Perlin; Melanie Schapiro; Graham Swon

    A young Argentine theatre director, Camila, leaves Buenos Aires to take up an artists residency in New York. As she undertakes a Spanish translation of Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" she...

  • Come to Me: Blues for As You Like It (Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare Lives 2016

    Inspired by the songs from "As You Like It", musician, Anjana Vasan, performs a musical triptych which follows the trajectory of a relations that doesn’t end well.