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  • Ill Met by Moonlight (2018 Television)

    aka: Series 1: Episode 10

    Series
    Shakespeare and Hathaway - Private Investigators
    Director
    Piotr Szkopiak
    Producer
    Ella Kelly

    When the disappearance of an expensive necklace coincides with the disappearance of an aristocrat’s errant daughter, Shakespeare and Hathaway are called upon to investigate.

  • Orson Welles and Shakespeare (2018 Audio)

    aka: Episode 89

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Esther French; Richard Paul

    The author of "Orson Welles, Shakespeare and Popular Culture and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of North Dakota; Andrew Anderegg, discusses how Orson Welles pioneered innovations in the...

  • Derek Jacobi: Playing Hamlet (2018 Audio)

    aka: Episode 91

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Esther French; Richard Paul

    Sir Derek Jacobi reflects on his first of 400 performances of Hamlet beginning at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1957. He shares his personal discovery of the meaning of Hamlet’s words and his motivations.

  • Dennis McCarthy and June Schlueter on the George North Manuscript (2018 Audio)

    aka: Episode 93

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Esther French; Richard Paul

    Is it possible that Shakespeare sourced the narrative for some of his most significant works from the unpublished writing of one George North? The Independent scholar, Dennis McCarthy and Professor Charles...

  • Antony Sher (2018 Audio)

    aka: Episode 94

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Esther French; Richard Paul

    Sir Antony Sher revisit the mental, physical and personal challenges of both preparing for and performing some of the most demanding roles in the Shakespearean repertoire.

  • Measure for Measure (2018 Radio)

    Series
    Drama on 3
    Director
    Gaynor Macfarlane

    Religion, sex and power interlace in a new radio adaptation of the last comedy written by Shakespeare. The production is introduced by Professor Julie Saunders.

  • Gounod - Romeo et Juliette from the Met (2018 Radio)

    An operatic adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" by the Charles Gounod. The opera tells the story of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy over five acts and was first performed in 1859. Placido Domingo conducts the...

  • What’s in a Name? (2018 Radio)

    Series
    Something Understood
    Producer
    Tom Glasser

    Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand examines the importance of names drawing from examples ranging from the book of Genesis to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The famous balcony scene is placed under the...

  • Stephen Alford: London’s Triumph (2018 Audio)

    aka: Episode 97

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Esther French; Richard Paul

    In his new book, "London’s Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers and Money in Shakespeare’s City", Stephen Alford reveals the enormous transitions underway in London during the preiod when Shakespeare lived...

  • Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2018 Radio)

    The soprano, Eva-Maria Westbroek stars as Katerina Ismailova in Shostakovich’s 20th Century masterpiece. Bored with her life and marriage, Katerina falls for Sergey; a worker in her husband’s factory....