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Much Ado About Nothing (BBC Radio Shakespeare)

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Listen to a sample Author: William Shakespeare Reader: Full Cast Running Time: 2hrs 15min

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BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard. In the acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the new millennium.

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Lenny & Will: Act One

Radio Broadcast

Listen to a sample Author: Lenny Henry Reader: Lenny Henry Running Time: 27 minutes

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My first experience of Shakespeare was reading it out in class and none of us understanding it, and we only got it when we saw the Zeffirelli film of Romeo and Juliet and realised - oh it's a story! why didn't he say that!'Starting at the recreated globe theatre, Lenny takes a journey of discovery through the plays he's now passionate about to find out why we so often put the bard on a pedestal. With leading contemporary performance specialists, actors and directors including Adrian Lester, Judi Dench, Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn, Barry Rutter, Dominic Dromgoole and Patsy Rodenburg.

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Shakespeare's Restless World

Radio Broadcast

Listen to a sample Author: Neil MacGregor Reader: Neil MacGregor Running Time: 4hrs 30min

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Examining these objects, Neil discusses how Shakespeare's audiences understood and made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing world in which they lived. With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they were first performed. Neil uses objects to explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the public and helped shape the works and considers what they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of Shakespearean England. Contributing to the programmes will be Shakespeare scholars, historians and experts on witchcraft and warfare, fencing and food, luxury trade and many other topics. They discuss the issues these objects raise - everything from exploration and discovery to violence, entertainment and the plague.

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Shakespeare Without The Boring Bits

Unabridged Broadcast

Listen to a sample Author: Humphrey Carpenter Reader: Carole Boyd Running Time: 2hrs 5min

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Though written nearly four hundred years ago, the stories in Shakespeare's plays are relevant today: stories of love, hate, jealousy, greed and magic. Humphrey Carpenter has retold the stories from nine plays in an original, exciting way. Hear what Juliet’s nurse thought of her affair with Romeo; listen to Bottom’s drunken rap as he tells of his Midsummer Night's Dream, share Cassius' remorse over the killing of Caesar, and laugh at Toby Belch’s letters as he tries to untangle the farce of 'Twelfth Night'.Since winning the BBC Radio Drama Prize, Carole Boyd has worked extensively in radio and theatre. She played Shirley Edwards in the Radio 2 soap opera 'Waggoner’s Walk' for four years and has taken the role of Lynda Snell in 'The Archers'. An experienced narrator and radio actress, she appears regularly on BBC Radio.

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