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Shakespeare Masque, A (2016 Radio)
- Series
- Radio 3 in Concert
A Shakespeare Masque, written by the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and composed by Sally Beamish. Ex Cathedra and City Musick are conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Baba Ganoush (2016 Radio)
- Series
- Sonnets in the City
- Director
- Gary Brown
- Producer
- Gary Brown
Short drama by Tom Wells with specially commissioned music by Tom Coult. The first of five dramas in response to Shakespeare’s sonnets beginning with Sonnet 29. Lee arrives late to the pop-up restaurant...
Verb: Live Broadcast, The (2016 Radio)
- Series
- Verb, The
Poet Ian McMillan hosts late night entertainment with a roundtable of writers celebrating Shakespeare’s language. Benet Brandreth, a rhetoric coach, has written a new novel imagining Shakespeare’s lost...
Tattered Heart (2016 Radio)
- Series
- Sonnets in the City
- Director
- Charlotte Riches
- Producer
- Charlotte Riches
Short drama by Francesca Martinez in response to Shakespeare’s sonnet no. 61. Music by Nina Whiteman. Maxine Peake reads "Is it thy will, thy image should keep open/My heavy eyelids to the weary night?".
World on 3 [22/04/2016] (2016 Radio)
- Series
- World on 3
Mary-Ann Kennedy celebrates the global influence of Shakespeare’s work - with live performances including the visiting Nola Jazz band from New Orleans, and guest Andrew Dickson, author of "World Elsewhere:...
Big Time (2016 Radio)
- Series
- Drama
- Producer
- Tim Dee
Radio play by Jonathan Holloway. Shakespeare died 400 years ago on the same day as the Spanish writer Cervantes - except they didn’t. The calendars of the two countries were ten days apart. Cervantes plots...
Excellent Dumb Discourse: Shakespeare in Silence, An (2016 Radio)
- Producer
- Matt Thompson
Radio broadcast. Isn’t silent Shakespeare an oxymoron? All that’s nuanced, beautiful, meaningful in the poetry - silenced. Yet between 1899 and 1927, when the first commercial sound film was released,...
Shakespeare and the American Dream. Part 1 (2016 Radio)
aka: Shakespeare in Obama’s America
- Series
- Compass: Shakespeare in the World
- Producer
- Maggie Ayre
Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Nashville he watched Henry V set during the Civil War.Composer Stephen Sondheim and actor Alec Baldwin contribute....
Much Ado About Comedy (2016 Radio)
- Producer
- Hayley Redmond
Radio broadcast. Matt Lucas explores Shakespeare’s comedies and examines whether they have an influence on current humour. Today we interpret comedy from a different perspective than 400 years ago - comedy...
Building a Library (2016 Radio)
- Series
- Record Review
Presented by Andrew MacGregor. Roger Parker recommends a recording of Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff.