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Hark! - An Acoustic Archaeology of Early Modern England (2008 Radio)
- Series
- Sunday Feature
- Producer
- Chris Brookes; Alan Hall
Radio programme on the acoustic archaeology of Elizabethan England. Historian Elizabeth Goldring, acoustic archaeologist Bruce Smith, lutenist Anthony Rooley, bell ringer Simon Meyer and voice coach Stewart...
King Lear (2008 Video)
- Director
- Trevor Nunn; Chris Hunt
- Producer
- Chris Hunt; Richard Price
A restaging by Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt of Nunn’s 2007 production of King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Ian McKellen in the title role.
Today [06/10/2008] (2008 Radio)
- Series
- Today
Radio current affairs and news programme. In this four minute item correspondent Raymond Buchanan reports on what happens if you combine two cultural icons, Shakespeare and the Beatles. Chris O’Neill, a...
I’Ve Never Seen Star Wars [02/10/2008] (2008 Radio)
- Series
- I’Ve Never Seen Star Wars
- Producer
- Bill Dare
Radio entertainment show in which presenter Marcus Brigstocke cajoles guests into experiencing something very everyday for the first time. In this episode, the culturally well-endowed comedian and political...
Write Stuff, The [06/10/2008] (2008 Radio)
- Series
- Write Stuff, The
- Producer
- Katie Marsden; Sam Michell
BBC Radio 4’s literary game show. This episode includes pastiches of Shakespeare’s works (excerpts from Shakespeare’s sonnet 18 and Hamlet) rewritten in the style of Raymond Chandler, who is the...
Macbeth (2008 Video)
- Series
- Metropolitan Opera Hd Live
- Director
- Adrian Noble
Live broadcast of Verdi’s opera with Maria Guleghina as Lady Macbeth and Zeljko Lucic as Macbeth. The stage direction is by Adrian Noble. The New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra are conducted...
Late Mr Shakespeare, The (2008 Radio)
- Series
- Saturday Play, The
- Producer
- Jeremy Mortimer
Radio play. Actor Robert Reynolds, known as Pickleherring, reminisces about his life as a boy actor in Shakespeare’s company, in Jonathan Broadbent’s adaptation of Robert Nye’s novel.
Seven Ages of Man, The (2008 Radio)
- Series
- Words and Music
- Producer
- Elizabeth Arno
The festival edition of Words and Music is an interpretation of Shakespeare’s the ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech from As You Like It, through the words of Blake and the Mersey Sound, Marlowe and Raleigh,...
Musical Shakespeare (2008 Television)
- Series
- Teachers’ Trade Secrets
Educational television. Students in groups are given different instruments to represent different emotions. Drums, for example, can portray anger. As they read a monologue, the students play instruments...
Interview: Leo Butler (2008 Audio, Multimedia)
Playwright Leo Butler talks to Aleks Sierz about his new work, One of These Days, a play commissioned by the RSC as part of the Complete Works Festival. Inspired by readings of The Tempest, the play is an...