Book Club, The: All the Sonnets of Shakespeare (2020)

Series

Best of the Spectator

Podcast. Sam Leith talks to Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells about their new book, All The Sonnets of Shakespeare, which brings together in chronlogical order the sonnets that appear in the plays together...

André Holland on Shakespeare’s "Richard II" (2020)

Series

New Yorker Radio Hour, The

Podcast. André Holland discusses playing Richard II for the Public Theater in New York on radio, after the open air stage production was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. He discusses the role and the...

Richard II: Episode 1 (2020 Audio)

Series

Free Shakespeare on the Radio

Director

Saheem Ali

Four-part audio production of Shakespeare’s play performed primarily by black actors. Each episode is introduced by Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker, who speaks to the cast and crew in the light of the...

Richard II: Episode 2 (2020 Audio)

Series

Free Shakespeare on the Radio

Director

Saheem Ali

Four-part audio production of Shakespeare’s play performed primarily by black actors. Each episode is introduced by Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker, who speaks to the cast and crew in the light of the...

Richard II: Episode 3 (2020 Audio)

Series

Free Shakespeare on the Radio

Director

Saheem Ali

Four-part audio production of Shakespeare’s play performed primarily by black actors. Each episode is introduced by Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker, who speaks to the cast and crew in the light of the...

Richard II: Episode 4 (2020 Audio)

Series

Free Shakespeare on the Radio

Director

Saheem Ali

Four-part audio production of Shakespeare’s play performed primarily by black actors. Each episode is introduced by Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker, who speaks to the cast and crew in the light of the...

Macbeth (2020 Radio)

Series

In Our Time

Producer

Simon Tillotson

Radio series in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events and inspirations that have influenced modern times. In this episode Melvyn Bragg discusses Macbeth with Professor Emma Smith (University of...

"Weeping Made You Break the Story off" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 151

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews director Saheem Ali and producer Emily Botein about turning their scheduled Shakespeare in the Park production of Richard II into a 4-part radio drama (qv) due to the...

Shakespeare and Film (2020 Multimedia, Video)

aka: Episode 17

Series

Shakespeare Hour Live!

Video podcast hosted by Simon Godwin (Artistic Director, Shakespeare Theatre Company) and Drew Lichtenberg. This episode looks at Shakespeare on film with guests Dr. Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame),...

Exploring the Language of Shakespeare with Sarah Esdaile (2020)

Director Sarah Esdaile works with works with two young actors - Matilda Tucker and Stuart Thompson - on Shakespeare’s Richard III.

Othello (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The twenty-sixth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...

All’s Well That Ends Well (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The twenty-seventh in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...

King Lear (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The twenty-eighth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...

Timon of Athens (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The twenty-ninth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...

Macbeth (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The thirtieth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...

Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award 2020 (2020 Video)

Two brief lectures by the joint winners of the 2020 Shakespeare’s Globe Book AwardL The first is by Emma Whipday (Newcastle University), who won for ‘Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies.' The second...

Shakespeare’s the Merchant of Venice: Anti-Semitism As Racism (2020)

Series

Critic.reading.writing

Video lecture by Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford University) who interprets the anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice via the framework provided by Frantz Fanon in his essay, ‘The Fact of Blackness’.

Past Uncovered, The: Shakespeare, Black Actors, And Whiteness (2020 Video)

aka: Episode 20

Series

Shakespeare Hour Live!

Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and LeeAnét Noble. This episode looks at the stories of black actors performing Shakespeare and implicit biases that have hindered their work. Guests include Dr....

"Do You Not Know I Am a Woman?" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 152

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Tana Wojczuk about her new book - Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity - looking at the career of the actress...

Antony and Cleopatra (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The thirty-first in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...

Coriolanus (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The thirty-second in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...

Winter’s Tale, The (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The thirty-third in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...

"Twas Pretty, Though a Plague" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 153

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Dr. Rebecca Totaro about how Shakespeare’s contemporaries spoke about the plague.

"Kindly to Judge Our Play" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 154

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Robert Myles about his ‘The Show Must Go Online’ project (qv), which aims to stage all of Shakespeare’s play online during the Covid 19 crisis.

How Do we Decolonise Shakespeare? (2020 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe. This edition focuses on personal responses to the concept of decolonisaion, with contributors including: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Federay Holmes, Steven Kavuma, Nour El...

Ghost Stories (2020 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe. In this Halloween edition the actors Michelle Terry and Paul Ready discuss fear and horror in cinema and theatre and the ghosts found in Shakespeare’s plays.

10 Things I Hate About Shrews with Guest James Northcote (2020 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare in Quarantine

Podcast hosted by the actor Alexandra Evans and director Jimmy Walters. In this episode they discuss Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, such modern adaptations of the play as the film ‘10 Things I Hate...

Janet Suzman on Hamlet, Othello, Antony & Cleopatra (2020 Audio)

Series

Women and Shakespeare

Podcast. In this edition, Dr Varsha Panjwani interviews actor-director Dame Janet Suzman about her productions of Hamlet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in South Africa and England.

"Coal-Black is Better Than Another Hue" (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 155

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Podcast. David Sterling Brown (Binghamton University) is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev and discusses Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus in the context of Critical Race Theory.

Cymbeline (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The thirty-fourth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...

Henry VIII (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The thirty-fifth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...

Paul Sugarman (2020 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. Paul Sugarman discusses his Instant Shakespeare Company, which organises annual readings of all the plays using the original Folio and Quarto texts. He also provides some insight into Shakespearean...

Andrew Muir (2020 Audio)

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Podcast. An interview with Andrew Muir about his new book about Bob Dylan and William Shakespeare, ‘Dylan & Shakespeare: The True Performing of It’.

Tempest, The (2020 Multimedia, Video)

Series

Show Must Go Online, The

Director

Robert Myles

Producer

Sarah Peachey

The last in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. This was the thirty-sixth production (neither...

Shakespearean - Robert McCrum in Conversation with Jason Webster (2020 Video)

Interview with Robert McCrum recorded during the 2020 Bridport Literary Festival. Jason Webster talks to McCrum in front of a live audience about his new book, Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of...

Bicks Do Shakespeare, The: An Overview (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 1

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the works of Shakespeare. In this introductory episode, they discuss Shakespeare the man and his works in general.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 2

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the works of Shakespeare. In this episode they discuss one of his earliest plays, The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Women of Shakespeare, The (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 3

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the works of Shakespeare. This episode looks at the female characters found in Shakespeare’s plays, broadly divided into rough categories - maids...

Angus Vail (2019 Audio)

aka: Falstaff: Henry IV, Part I

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Vail, a New Zealander based in New Jersey who works in the rock music industry, is building what is known as ‘The Container Globe,' a modern replica of Shakespeare’s theatre using shipping containers. In...

Jim Helsinger (2019 Audio)

aka: Gertrude and Claudius

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

An interview with Helsinger, an actor and the artistic director of the Orlando Shakespeare Festival. He discusses his stage adaptation of John Updike’s ‘Gertrude and Claudius,' a prequel to Hamlet.

Jenny Bennett (2019 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare in Taiwan

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

An interview with Bennett, a director, actor and educator. She discusses her career, her Shakespeare productions and the seven years she worked in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where she founded a theatre.

Very Good Piece of Work, I Assure You, A (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 123

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev talks to director Casey Wilder Mott and actor-producer Fran Kranz about their 2018 film version of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ set in contemporary Los Angeles.

You Speak Like a Green Girl (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 124

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev talks to Lisa Klein about her novel Ophelia, a retelling of Hamlet from the point of view of its female protagonist, now adapted into a film starring Daisy Ridley.

Remembering Sam Wanamaker (2019 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. In this edition Patrick Spottiswood, the Globe’s Education Director, remembers actor and director Sam Wanamaker, who founded the Globe project...

Refugee Week 2019 (2019 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. Special edition to celebrate World Refugee Day. Includes interviews Sabrina Richmond - the Globe’s Refugee Week artist in residence - and...

David Pearson (2019 Audio)

aka: As You Like It. Act II, Scene 7. Jacques

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Actor and director David Pearson talks about the Shakespeare productions he stages on Qatar, Dubai.

Taming of the Shrew, The (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 4

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the controversial Shakespeare comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. They also comment on some of the film adaptations including the Mary Pickford and...

All is True - Film Review and Discussion (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 5

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss ALL IS TRUE, the biographical film on Shakespeare’s final years written by Ben Elton and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

Wars of the Roses, The (2019 Audio)

aka: Episode 6

Series

Bicks Pod, The

Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss fact and fiction in Shakespeare’s historical plays Henry VI (parts 1, 2 and 3) and Richard III, exploring how they vary from historical fact and...

Icarus (2019 Audio)

aka: Henry VI Part 1 - Act 4 Scene 2-7

Series

Chop Bard

Producer

Shannon Sneedse

Looking in detail at the fourth Act of Henry VI. Talbot and son fight for their lives at Bordeaux, York and Somerset bicker over blame from a distance.