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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

Building a Library (2016 Radio)

Series

Record Review

Presented by Andrew MacGregor. Roger Parker recommends a recording of Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff.

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...

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....

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,...

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...