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  • As You Like It (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Drama on 3
    Director
    Sally Avens

    Radio broadcast of the play introduced by Pippa Nixon. Pippa Nixon first played Rosalind for the RSC in 2013. This stage production is catalogued separately.

  • Reunion, The [03/05/2015] (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Reunion, The
    Producer
    Matt Taylor

    Radio broadcast. Presenter Sue MacGregor looks at how Peter Brook’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1970 heralded a radical shift in productions of...

  • Year of the Fat Knight (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Clive Brill

    Radio broadcast. Antony Sher reads from ‘The Year of the Fat Knight’, his account of rehearsing and performing the role of Falstaff in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2014 production of Henry IV Parts...

  • Shakespeare’s Fire (2015 Radio)

    Director
    Frank Stirling
    Producer
    Frank Stirling

    Radio drama by Glynn Maxwell. On a hot summer day the King’s Men in Southwark are performing ‘The Life of King Henry VIII’. The same day in June the Globe theatre burned down. There are many eye...

  • Macbeth (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Drama on 3
    Director
    Marc Beeby
    Producer
    Marc Beeby

    Radio drama. Neil Dudgeon and Emma Fielding are the Macbeths.

  • Looking for the Moor (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Feature
    Producer
    Roger James Elsgood

    Radio broadcast. In preparing to take on the role of Othello for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hugh Quarshie goes in search of the wisdom of others about the ethical conundrums of a black actor playing the...

  • Free Thinking [01/10/2015] (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Free Thinking
    Producer
    Torquil Macleod

    BBC Radio 3’s arts and ideas series offering extended interviews and debate. Matthew Sweet and his guests review Justin Kurzel’s MACBETH (2015) with Michael Fassbender and discuss other cinematic...

  • 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. 1: The Theatre (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Gaynor Macfarlane

    Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....

  • 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. 2: The Gunpowder Plot (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Gaynor Macfarlane

    Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....

  • 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. 3: Plague (2015 Radio)

    Series
    Book of the Week
    Producer
    Gaynor Macfarlane

    Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....