SHAKESPEARE

Diversity (2022 Radio)

Series

Essay, The: The Beeb and the Bard

Producer

Susan Marling

5-part Radio documentary series. Samuel West and Dr Andrea Smith present a guide to Shakespeare productions produced by BBC Radio since its inception in 1922. 5. This episode looks at how styles have...

William Shakespeare: To Cancel or Not to Cancel? Sheilah Winn Funding Cut. (2022 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Coverage of the decision by the New Zealand government to cut its support for the annual secondary school Shakespeare Festival amid claims that the playwright’s work promotes a ‘canon of...

Royal Shakespeare Company, The (2022 Radio)

aka: Episode 54

Series

Amelia Project, The

Director

Philip Thorne; Alan Burgon

Full cast audio comedy series about an organisation that helps people disappear. In this episode, members of the RSC in a production of Hamlet, forced to stay in character throughout, get in touch with the...

Private Passions (2021 Radio)

Producer

Elizabeth Burke

Professor James Shapiro discusses his upbringing and his passion for Shakespeare.

Shakespeare’s Life Lessons (2021 Radio)

Series

Free Thinking

Producer

Emma Wallace

Lisa Mullen talks to Shakespeare scholars Professor Emma Smith, Dr Patrick Gray and Dr Emma Whipday about what his work can teach us today.

RSC: The Bard, The Theatre and a Pandemic (2021 Radio)

Series

In the Studio

This radio documentary, presented by Karl Bos, examines how the Royal Shakespeare Company adapted its activities following the Covid-19 pandemic and the closure of its live theatre venues and outreach...

Dedication [Part 1] (2021 Radio)

Series

Lights Up

Director

Celia de Wolff

Producer

Celia de Wolff

New radio production (in two halves) of Nick Dear’s 2016 stage play that explores Shakespeare’s relationship with the Earl of Southampton by putting the author on trial.

Dedication [Part 2] (2021 Radio)

Series

Lights Up

Director

Celia de Wolff

Producer

Celia de Wolff

Part two of a new radio production of Nick Dear’s 2016 stage play that explores Shakespeare’s relationship with the Earl of Southampton by putting the author on trial.

Shakespeare: 400 Years of the Bard (2021 Radio)

Series

Nightlife

Suzanne Hill talks with John Bashford, Head of Acting at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art) about Shakespeare’s life and work.

When Will we Three Make a King? (2021 Radio)

aka: Episode 1

Series

Play on Podcasts: Macbeth

Director

Edward Torres

Producer

Catherine Eaton

Radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare play, adapted into modern English verse by Migdalia Cruz and directed by Edward Torres. Part of the ‘Play On Shakespeare’ project to create more contemporary...