SHAKESPEARE

King Lear (2012 Video)

Director

Vladimir Shcherban

Video recording of the Belarus Free Theatre’s staging of King Lear as part of the Globe to Globe season. Directed by Vladimir Shcherban with Aleh Sidorchik as Lear. Spoken in Belarusian.

Shakespeare’s Restless World: Disguise and Deception (2012 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Restless World

Producer

Paul Kobrak

Fourteenth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean...

Shakespeare’s Restless World: The Theatres of Cruelty (2012 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Restless World

Producer

Paul Kobrak

Penultimate episode in a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and...

Hollow Crowns (2012 Television)

Series

Simon Schama’s Shakespeare

Director

Ashley Gething

Producer

Charlotte Sacher

Documentary. Simon Schama concludes his two-part documentary looking at Shakespeare’s attitudes towards kingship. The programmes focuses on Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Henry V and Richard II. Includes...

My Own Shakespeare: Andrew Marr (2012 Radio)

Series

My Own Shakespeare

Producer

Lucy Collingwood

Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode broadcaster Andrew Marr chooses a speech from King Lear (Act 5 Scene 3) as the piece of...

My Own Shakespeare: Paul Whitehouse (2012 Radio)

Series

My Own Shakespeare

Producer

Lucy Collingwood

Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode comedian Paul Whitehouse chooses a speech from King Lear (Act 1 Sc 5) as the piece of...

My Own Shakespeare: Jim Al-Khalili (2012 Radio)

Series

My Own Shakespeare

Producer

Lucy Collingwood

Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode scientist Jim Al-Khalili chooses Edmund’s speech from King Lear (Act 1 Scene 2) as the piece...

My Own Shakespeare: Melvyn Bragg (2012 Radio)

Series

My Own Shakespeare

Producer

Lucy Collingwood

Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode broadcaster Melvyn Bragg chooses a speech from King Lear (Act 3 Scene 2) as the piece of...

My Own Shakespeare: Gyles Brandreth (2012 Radio)

Series

My Own Shakespeare

Producer

Lucy Collingwood

Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode broadcaster Gyles Brandreth chooses a speech from King Lear (Act 5 Scene 3) as the piece of...

Music for the Theatre (2012 Radio)

aka: Theatre Music: Shakespeare

Series

Afternoon on 3

First in a series of four programmes, presented by Penny Gore, featuring music written for Shakespeare’s plays. A team of actors joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for specially recorded scenes from Hamlet...