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  • Wolf All? - Shakespeare and Food in Renaissance England (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Essay: Shakespeare 400, The
    Producer
    Beaty Rubens

    Five young scholars re-evaluate the playwrights work. The third programme is delivered by Joan Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Loughborough University. Fitzpatrick explains her new...

  • Undiscovered Countries - Shakespeare and the Nation (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Essay: Shakespeare 400, The
    Producer
    Beaty Rubens

    Five young scholars re-evaluate the playwrights work. The second programme is delivered by James Loxley, Professor of Early Modern Literature in the University of Edinburgh. At a time when relationships...

  • Shakespeare and the Suffragettes (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Essay: Shakespeare 400, The
    Producer
    Beaty Rubens

    Five young scholars re-evaluate the playwrights work. In the opening programme Sophie Duncan reveals how Shakespeare’s heroines helped transform Victorian schoolgirls into Edwardian activists. The 19th...

  • First Folio Road Trip (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Beaty Rubens

    Radio broadcast. Professor Emma Smith travels across Britain and to France and follows the story of seven of the 750 original copies of the First Folio to learn how Shakespeare’s work was disseminated.

  • Love Again (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Sonnets in the City
    Director
    Nadia Molinari

    Radio drama. The last in the series of five short plays inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets. Zodwa Nyoni is inspired by Sonnet 154. It’s 5 am and solicitor Thandie has been on call all night and browsing...

  • Play’s the Thing, The (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Words and Music

    Radio broadcast. The grand finale when actors and musicians come together in a live performance celebrating poems, songs, readings and music on the theme of Shakespeare’s legacy in theatre and the art of...

  • Choir, The [24/04/2016] (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Choir, The
    Producer
    Chris Taylor

    Sarah Moir-Pietsch talks to Bruce O’Neil, Head of Music at the Royal Shakespeare Company, about singing at the RSC, plus a new work by Dobrinka Tabakova.

  • Early Music Show, The [24/04/2016] (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Early Music Show

    Radio broadcast. Ex Cathedra perform English and Italian madrigals celebrating the growth in interest in singing in England during Shakespeare’s most creative period. Presented by Lucie Skeaping from the...

  • Shakespeare and Youth (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Words and Music
    Producer
    Zahid Warley

    Radio broadcast. Student actors from the Shakespeare Institute perform prose and poetry on the theme of youth.

  • Jonathan Bate (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Private Passions
    Producer
    Jane Greenwood (2)

    BBC Radio 3 series in which guests talk to Michael Berkeley about music which has influenced their lives. In this edition biographer and critic Jonathan Bate talks of his favourite Shakespeare-inspired music...