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  • Shakespeare on Record (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Record Review

    Explores the ways in which Shakespeare’s verse has been performed on disc. With actors Hugh Quarshie and Samuel West and Shakespeare scholar Kate Kennedy.

  • Shakespeare and Power (2016 Radio)

    aka: Power of Royalty, The

    Series
    Words and Music

    Radio broadcast. Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith are the readers in a sequence of texts and music inspired by one of Shakespeare’s favourite themes: the power of royalty and monarchy as a metaphor...

  • Music Matters [23/04/2016] (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Music Matters

    Music magazine series. Tom Service explores the music in Shakespeare’s plays and Shakespearean music from the BBC archives, with composer Gary Carpenter and theatre historian Sarah Lenton.

  • Saturday Classics [23/04/2016] (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Saturday Classics

    Radio broadcast. Pianist Richard Sisson attempts to perform music from every Shakespeare play, with pianist Ashley Wass, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, baritone Mark Stone and the BBC Singers.

  • Sound of Cinema [23/04/2016] (2016 Radio)

    aka: Shakespeare on the Screen

    Series
    Sound of Cinema

    Radio broadcast live from King Edward VI School. The BBC Concert Orchestra join presenter Matthew Sweet live on stage for 60 minutes of music from Shakespeare on film. Including music from one of the great...

  • Jazz Record Requests [23/04/2016] (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Jazz Record Requests

    Alyn Shipton presents listeners’ requests as well as music from surprise guests, as part of Radio 3’s Sounds of Shakespeare weekend. Listeners join Alyn from the audience to introduce their requests on...

  • Shakespeare and Jealousy (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Words and Music

    Radio broadcast. Tim Pigott-Smith and Juliet Stevenson read extracts from Shakespeare focusing on jealousy.

  • Otello (2016 Radio)

    aka: Othello

    Series
    Opera on 3: Live from the Met
    Director
    Bartlett Sher

    Barlett Sher directs Verdi’s opera with Aleksandrs Antonenko in the title role and Zeliko Lu i , as Iago. The Metropolitan Opera and Chorus is conducted by Adam Fischer, Presented by Mary Jo Heath and Ira...

  • After Sunset Fades (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Sonnets in the City
    Producer
    Pauline Harris

    Radio drama. Third in a series of five short plays inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets. Sonnet 73 is the inspiration behind Esther Wilson’s nocturnal tale in which old and young collide. Maxine Peake reads...

  • Tongue (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Sonnets in the City
    Producer
    Nadia Molinari

    Radio drama. Fourth in a series of five short plays inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets. Sonnet 140 is the inspiration behind Lee Mattinson’s surreal tale. Drug-addled reveller Noel has bitten off...