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Much Ado About Shakespeare (2021 Radio)
Radio broadcast. Concert featuring music inspired by Shakespeare recorded at the 2020 Ernen Festival in Switzerland, presented by John Shea. The programme includes: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Much...
Otello (2020 Radio)
- Series
- Afternoon Concert
- Director
- Adrian Noble
Tom McKinney introduces a recording of the Vienna State Opera of Verdi’s Otello staged by Adrian Noble. Featuring Aleksandrs Antonenko as Otello, Olga Bezsmertna as Desdemona and Vladislav Sulimsky as Iago.
Plague on All Our Houses, A (2020 Radio)
- Producer
- Maggie Ayre
Radio Documentary. Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, looks at the impact that the plague had on the life and work of William Shakespeare, focusing in particular on how this may...
Othello (2020 Radio)
- Series
- Drama on 3
- Director
- Emma Harding
Shakespeare’s tragedy, adapted and directed for radio by Emma Harding, set in an imagined near future in which Turkey attacks Cyprus. Western forces rush to Cyprus’ defence, under the command of General...
Long View of Theatre Closures, The (2020 Radio)
- Series
- The Long View
- Producer
- Tom Alban
Jonathan Freedland and Professor Emma Smith discuss the closure of theatres in Shakespeare’s time during an outbreak of the plague in 1603.
Shakespeare’s Starling (2019 Radio)
- Producer
- Zoë Comyns
Radio documentary by Zoë Comyns that explores the references to birds that appear in Shakespeare’s plays and contrasts this with the devastation that ensued following the introduction of Starlings in to...
Branding Genius (2019 Radio)
- Producer
- Ellie Richold
Radio documentary. Graphic designer Teresa Monachino looks at who owns Shakespeare in terms of branding and how the name and image have been commercialised. Contributors include: Professor Michael Dobson...
Drama on 3: Love is Not New in This Country (2018 Radio)
- Director
- Jeremy Mortimer
- Producer
- Joby Waldman
A radio drama based on the true story of the creation of a Afghan theatre company by the German-Syrian actress and director, Corinne Jaber. It’s 2005 and the Taliban have been defeated in Afghanistan....
Measure for Measure (2018 Radio)
- Series
- Drama on 3
- Director
- Gaynor Macfarlane
Religion, sex and power interlace in a new radio adaptation of the last comedy written by Shakespeare. The production is introduced by Professor Julie Saunders.
Gounod - Romeo et Juliette from the Met (2018 Radio)
An operatic adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" by the Charles Gounod. The opera tells the story of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy over five acts and was first performed in 1859. Placido Domingo conducts the...