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...

Set in the fictional country of Illyria, Twelfth Night is Shakespeare_x005F_x001A_s comic tale of identical twins, girls disguised as boys, practical joking and love at first sight. Retold by...

Gerard McSorley stars as Petruchio, with Ruth Mitchell as Katherina in Shakespeare’s sharply witty comedy.BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the...

Shakespeare's thought-provoking tale of a merchant in debt to a heartless Jewish moneylender who demands his pound of flesh is movingly retold by award-winning author Leon Garfield. Read by Simon...

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...

A BBC Radio 3 full-cast dramatisation of Shakespeare’s classic ‘Cymbeline’, starring Bill Wallis. Originally broadcast in December 2006 as part of the ‘Drama on 3’...

Warren Mitchell stars with Martin Jarvis, Samuel West and Juliet Aubrey in this BBC Radio 4 production of Shakespeare’s thrilling courtroom drama.Shakespeare’s classic play explores the...

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...

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...

Samuel West stars as Richard II, with Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt in a gripping production of Shakespeare's lyrically tragic history.BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to...

Sylvestra le Touzel, Samuel West and David Threlfall star in Shakespeare's delightful comic fantasy. Puck is played by Becky Simpson, star of the award-winning play 'Spoonface Steinberg'. BBC...

Simon Russell Beale and Clare Higgins read some of Shakespeare's best-loved stories, skilfully abridged and adapted by Leon Garfield. The plays featured include: As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius...

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...

Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind, with David Morrissey as Orlando and Natasha Little as Celia in Shakespeare’s comedy about the enchanted world of the Forest of Arden.BBC Radio has a...

A BBC Radio 3 full-cast enactment of Shakespeare's last great tragedy, 'Antony and Cleopatra', with David Harewood and Frances Barber in the title roles. Originally broadcast as part of the 'Drama...