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  • Shakespeare and Politics (2020 Audio)

    aka: Episode 41

    Series
    Bicks Pod, The

    Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay, following the results of the 2020 US Presidential election, discuss Shakespeare and politics both today and in Elizabethan England.

  • Elsinore: Part 1 (2018 Radio)

    Series
    Elsinore
    Director
    Marc Beeby; Sasha Yevtushenko

    When his brother, Claudius is captured by the notorious Pirate, Captain True, King Hamlet is sent a ransom demand. At home in Denmark, the seeds of rebellion begin to take root. Elsinore is set in an...

  • 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...

  • Shakespeare’s Politics (2018 Video)

    Series
    Classic Shakespeare

    Video of the fourth lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate examines how Shakespeare looked at Roman political models and the...

  • King Lear (2017 Audio)

    Director
    Barnaby Edwards
    Producer
    David Richardson

    In ancient Britain, the elderly King Lear plans for the future of his estate by putting his three daughters to the test. By indulging his vanity, the King delivers a terrible injustice that wrecks havoc on...

  • Macbeth (2017 Film)

    Director
    Kit Monkham
    Producer
    Alan Latham; Tom Mattinson

    One of King Duncan’s best generals, Macbeth is showered with honours at court having achieved a great victory. When some drifters prophesy that he will be King and encouraged by the ambitions of his wife,...

  • Shakespeare in Swahililand (2017 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Richard Paul

    An acclaimed playwright, novelist, dissident and social activist; Ng g Wa Thiong’o is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He joins University of...

  • Shakespeare’s London and Ancient Rome (2017 Video)

    Series
    Classic Shakespeare

    Video of the first lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate discusses Shakespeare’s childhood, when he learned London, and his...

  • Shakespeare and Trump with Jeffrey R. Wilson (2016 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory

    Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...

  • Is Shakespeare Always Political? (2016 Audio)

    Accompanying event to the British Library’s ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition. The panellists discuss the political themes within Shakespeare’s plays and consider how he voiced the political...