SHAKESPEARE

Front Row [07/12/2011] (2011 Radio)

Series

Front Row

Producer

Georgia Mann

As part of the arts news and reviews radio programme with Mark Lawson, Adam Mars-Jones reviews Eddie Redmayne’s performance as he takes the title role in a new staging of Shakespeare’s Richard II, the...

Performance on 3 [03/07/2010] (2010 Radio)

Series

Performance on 3

Radio programme investigating some settings of British composers whose music has been inspired by Shakespeare. It features songs by John Gardner (Nos 1, 2, 4, 5), Vaughan Williams, Cyril Rootham, Giles...

Daily Show with Jim Stewart, The [20/05/2009] (2009 Television)

Series

Daily Show with Jim Stewart, The

American satirical programme focusing on politics and the national media. This edition includes a report named Scamalot (c4 mins) on the current MP’s expenses scandal in Britain. John Oliver, the show’s...

Shakespeare Talks # 3 (2009 Audio)

aka: Steven Skybell

An actor of stage and screen, Steven Skybell discusses the power of verse and performing the roles of Hamlet and Richard II. He is interviewed by the Executive Director of the Shakespeare Society. Michael...

Curse of Steptoe, The (2008 Television)

Director

Michael Samuels

Producer

Brian Bickerton

Television drama about the relationship, on and off screen, of Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell who played Harold and Albert Steptoe in the television sitcom STEPTOE AND SO written by Ray Galton and...

Shakespeare: The History Plays, Part 2 (2008 Audio, Multimedia)

In this sequel to her first interview, Heather Neill questions Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, about the various challenges of staging the RSC’s two-year Histories cycle...

Michael Boyd (2008 Radio)

Series

Downstage Centre

Radio broadcast. Michael Boyd discusses the overwhelming success of his recent history play cycle in both Stratford and London, his vision for ensemble theatre making and the future of the Royal Shakespeare...

Young Victoria, The (2008 Film)

Director

Jean-Marc Vallée

Producer

Graham King; Martin Scorsese; Tim Headington; Sarah Ferguson

Biopic. In one scene Queen Victoria is listening to a reading from Richard II. The scene is Act 3, sc. ii `Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king; The breath of...

Land of Milk and Crunch: Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut Cornflakes (2007 Film)

Director

Simon Cole

Producer

Gemma Knight

A television advertisement for Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut breakfast cereal. The following lines, a pastiche of John of Gaunt’s speech in Richard II, are read over Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1...

Shakespeare and Music in the Time of Henry Purcell (2007 Radio)

Series

Early Music Show, The

Radio broadcast. Guest presenter Simon Russell Beale examines Restoration theatre, sharing his insights into the plots and characters in musical settings of Shakespeare’s plays by Purcell and his...