Adapting Shakespeare (2018 Audio)

Series

Cinema Junkie

Film podcast hosted by Beth Accomando. Includes interviews with director Kathleen Marshall about his film of Much Ado About Nothing, playwright Will Power about his new version of Richard III as Seize the...

Taming Shakespeare’s "Shrew" (2018 Audio)

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Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Shana Cooper, assistant professor at Northwestern University, discusses the production of Taming of the Shrew that she recently directed at the at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.

Burbage to Burbage (2018 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Kevin Kenerly, currently playing Richard Burbage in Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will, talks with Austin Tichenor (who played Burbage in the 2017 Northlight Theatre production of the same play) about his...

Lady Macbeth Herself (2018 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Chaon Cross discusses playing Lady Macbeth in a current production of the ‘Scottish Play’ at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.

I was Cleopatra (2018 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

An interview with author Dennis Abrams, who discusses his new YA novel, I Was Cleopatra, a fictional look at the life of actor John Rice, who played many of Shakespeare’s important female roles, including...

Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries (2018 Audio)

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Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Anne Morgan discusses the ‘Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries’ project, which seeks to produce a new canon of 38 plays inspired by and in conversation with Shakespeare’s originals.

Shakespeare in Prague (2018 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

An interview with John Boston, Jared Doreck and Steve Josephson from the Prague Shakespeare Company to discuss their production of the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First...

Enduring Influence of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’, The (2018 Multimedia)

Video recording of one of a series of lectures held during the Jaipur Literature Festival in New York on 20 September 2018. The main speakers are James Shapiro and Preti Taneja, introduced by Gauri Viswanathan.

Hamlet in Bsl: Shakespeare Synopsis Project (2018 Video)

The Shakespeare Synopsis project aims to create a filmed synopsis for every one of Shakespeare’s plays. Here, Paula Garfield, Artistic director of Deafinitely Theatre, tells the story of Hamlet.

Macbeth in Bsl: Shakespeare Synopsis Project (2018 Video)

Director

Sophie Stone

The Shakespeare Synopsis project aims to create a filmed synopsis for every one of Shakespeare’s plays. Here, Sophie Stone directs this telling of the story of Macbeth.

Henry IV (2018 Video)

Series

Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy

Director

Phyllida Lloyd

Producer

John Wyver; Kate Pakenham

Screen version of the 2014 Donmar production of both of Shakespeare’s plays about Henry IV, restaged with a live audience at a bespoke venue in King’s Cross. An all-female production, presented as if...

Tempest, The (2018 Video)

Series

Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy

Director

Phyllida Lloyd

Producer

John Wyver; Kate Pakenham

Screen version of the 2016 Donmar production of Shakespeare’s last play, restaged with a live audience and filmed at a bespoke venue in King’s Cross. An all-female production, presented as if played by...

Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets (2018 Radio)

Series

In Our Time

Producer

Simon Tillotson

Melvyn Bragg and his guests Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan and Katherine Lewis discuss Shakespeare’s versions of history, starting with the English Plantagenets, covering the eight plays produced from Richard...

Is Shakespeare History? The Romans (2018 Radio)

Series

In Our Time

Producer

Simon Tillotson

Melvyn Bragg and his guests Jonathan Bate, Catherine Steel and Patrick Gray discuss Shakespeare’s versions of Roman history in Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and parts of Antony and Cleopatra.

Behind the Scenes of Troilus and Cressida (2018 Audio)

Series

Much Ado About Shakespeare

This podcast is a collaboration between The Telegraph and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). In this edition, Ben Lawrence goes behind the scenes of the new production of Troilus and Cressida and talks...

Fear and Loathing in Ancient Troy (2018 Audio)

Series

Much Ado About Shakespeare

This podcast is a collaboration between The Telegraph and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). In this edition, Ben Lawrence goes behind the scenes of the new production of Troilus and Cressida and talks...

I Understand Thee Well (2018 Audio)

aka: Episode 106

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Esther French; Garland Scott

Ayanna Thompson, director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University, discusses the work of director Peter Sellars. She and Sellars are both interviewed by Barbara...

Make the Full House Complete (2018 Audio)

aka: Episode 107

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Esther French; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews Nicola Stockley and Richard Denton, the producers of the PBS television series Shakespeare Unovered. They go over the details of the upcoming third season, in which Brian Cox and...

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...

Tom Hanks’ Falstaff (2018 Audio)

Series

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Podcast. An interview with Kristen Osborn, who discusses working as assistant director on the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles’ production of Henry IV (parts 1 and 2) starring Tom Hanks as Falstaff,...

Othello (2018 Audio)

Series

Great Books

John J. Miller of the conservative publication National Review and Benedict Whalen, Assistant Professor of English at Hillsdale College, discuss William Shakespeare’s Othello.

Romeo & Juliet in Kigali: How a Soap Opera Sought to Change Behavior in Rwanda (2018 Audio)

Series

Hidden Brain

Shankar Vedantam presents a look at the way a people is dehumanised before a genocide. Featuring the experiences and theories of Ervin Staub, it first looks at his experiences in Nazi Germany and then looks...

Alan Green: The Shakespeare Mystery, Manifesting and the John Dee Cipher (2018 Audio)

Series

The Higherside Chats

Podcast hosted by Greg Carlwood. This edition features an interview with Alan Green - author of ‘De-coding Shakespespeare’ and the Shakespeare musical ‘Bard’- on the theories surrounding the...

There is the Playhouse Now, There Must You Sit (2018 Audio)

aka: Marketing Shakespeare

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Esther French; Richard Paul

Marketing directors from three theatres participating in Folger’s Theatre Partnership Programme, discuss the challenges of convincing audiences to experience Shakespeare’s least popular plays.

Past and the Present, The (2018 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. In this edition Dr Will Tosh and Professor Lucy Munro look at the history plays; there is also a behind-the-scenes tour with the company of Eyam...

Shakespeare and Remembrance (2018 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. This bonus episode, released to coincide with the ‘Shakespeare and Remembrance’ event at the Globe, features interviews with Neil Davies,...

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...

Something Wicked This Way Comes (2018 Audio)

Series

Such Stuff

Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. This Halloween episode looks at the upcoming production of Macbeth and talks to its director, Ron Hastie. David Bellwood, the theatre’s Access...

Elsinore: Part 2 (2018 Radio)

Series

Elsinore

Director

Marc Beeby; Sasha Yevtushenko

After his capture by the pirate Captain True, Claudius returns to Elsinore determined to find out why King Hamlet did not pay the ransom demand. A strange, Danish farmer comes to court to deliver horses as a...

My Speech of Insultment Ended on His Dead Body (2018 Audio)

aka: Episode 108

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Esther French; Garland Scott

Barbara Bogaev interviews Ruth Goodman about her new book, ‘How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts’.

Elsinore: Part 3 (2018 Radio)

Series

Elsinore

Director

Marc Beeby; Sasha Yevtushenko

Claudius visits the mysterious Kingdom of Carpathia to negotiate the betrothal of the Princess of Carpathia to King Hamlet. The visit unearths disturbing family secrets that involve Claudius and his...

Road to Richard, The (2018 Audio)

aka: Henry VI Part 1 - Intro

Series

Chop Bard

Producer

Shannon Sneedse

Is this Shakespeare? What’s Stylometry? Were there any famous Elizabethan pamphleteers? All of these questions are addressed in this introduction to part one of Henry VI.

Elsinore: Part 4 (2018 Radio)

Series

Elsinore

Director

Marc Beeby; Sasha Yevtushenko

Claudius is despatched to Sweden to repatriate the body of the traitor, Lord Anders. He discovers deeply worrying news about a plot by his brother, King Hamlet. Elsinore is set in an alternative Europe of...

Too Famous to Live (2018 Audio)

aka: Henry VI Part 1 - Act I Scene 1

Series

Chop Bard

Producer

Shannon Sneedse

Looking at how the various points of conflict are set up in in the opening scene of Henry VI. Also explores forms of address and the use of ‘you’ versus ‘thee’ and ‘thou’.

Maid of Orléans,the (2018 Audio)

aka: Henry VI Part 1 - Act I Scene 2

Series

Chop Bard

Producer

Shannon Sneedse

Looking at how the French are introduced in the second scene of Henry VI.

None Shall Pass (2018 Audio)

aka: Henry VI Part 1 - Act I Scene 3,4,5 (6)

Series

Chop Bard

Producer

Shannon Sneedse

Looking in details at the first Act of Henry VI.

Shakespeare’s Stages: In Little Place a Million (2018 Video)

Video of a lecture from the Museum of London, originally streamed live. Actor and Shakespeare scholar Michael Pennington discusses the direct effect on the dramatist’s writing of the theatres he wrote for.

Performing Shakespeare (2018 Audio)

Series

Nt Talks

Audio podcast. Abigail Rokison-Woodall and Simon Russell Beale, editors of the new Arden Performance Editions of Shakespeare’s plays, discuss the perks, pitfalls and practicalities of transferring the...

Drama on 3: Love is Not New in This Country (2018 Radio)

Director

Jeremy Mortimer

Producer

Joby Waldman

A radio drama based on the true story of the creation of a Afghan theatre company by the German-Syrian actress and director, Corinne Jaber. It’s 2005 and the Taliban have been defeated in Afghanistan....

Anne-Marie Duff and Rory Kinnear on Macbeth (2018 Audio)

Series

Nt Talks

Audio podcast. Tazeen Ahmad hosts a conversation with the two stars of the Rufus Norris’ new production of Macbeth for the National Theatre.

Antony Sher: The Lear Diaries (2018 Audio)

Series

Nt Talks

Audio podcast. Sue MacGregor talks to actor Antony Sher about how he approached playing Lear, which he chronicled in his book, Year of the Mad King: The Lear Diaries.

Shakespeare’s England in 1606 (2018 Audio)

Series

Nt Talks

Audio podcast. Mark Lawson talks to American author James Shapiro about the events of 1606, the year in which Shakespeare is reputed to have written Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear and Macbeth, also touching...

What the Puck (2018 Audio)

aka: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Act II Scene 2

Series

Chop Bard

Producer

Shannon Sneedse

Aided by Robin, Oberon, King of the Faeries makes mischief. Meanwhile, Lysander and Hermia are lost in the woods.

Jo Nesbo: Macbeth (2018 Audio)

Series

Nt Talks

Audio podcast. Rosie Goldsmith speaks to Norwegian thriller writer Jo Nesbo, who has written a crime novel set in the 1970s inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The books has been published as part of the...

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...

Shakespeare’s Lovers (2018 Video)

Series

Classic Shakespeare

Video of the third lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate examines Shakespeare’s work as a poet, such as venus and Adonis,...

Shakespeare’s Ghosts and Spirits (2018 Video)

Series

Classic Shakespeare

Video of the fifth lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate examines Shakespeare’s debt to Seneca and the myths of Theseus and...

Shakespeare’s Fame (2018 Video)

Series

Classic Shakespeare

Video of the sixth and final lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate looks at how Shakespeare immortalised figures from ancient...

Comedy of Errors, The (2018 Audio)

Series

Prosecast

Audio podcast. Drew Lichtenberg (Audience Enrichment Manager) and Hannah Hessel Ratner (Literary Manager) from the Shakespeare Theatre Company are joined by actor Ted van Griethuysen in a conversation about...

Blame It on the Bard: Why the ‘Author" Shakespeare is Responsible for World War I and World War II (2018 Video)

Lecture on cultural appropriation by Wally Hurst presented at the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Conference in Oakland, California. It looks at how important Shakespeare’s work was in the development of...