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...

Douglas Henshall stars as Romeo, with Sophie Dahl as Juliet and Susannah York as Lady Capulet in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love.BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to...

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...

Gerard Murphy, Stella Gonet and Nicholas Farrell star in Shakespeare's turbulent Roman history. BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed...

Shakespeare's notorious 'Scottish play' describes how ambition, lust for power, and the prophecy of three evil witches transform a brave nobleman into a traitor and murderous tyrant. Retold by...

Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son Hal in the powerful production which also stars Timothy West and Prunella Scales.BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it...

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...

Michael Sheen stars as Hamlet, with Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beaven as Ophelia in the best-known and most powerful tragedy of modern times.BBC Radio...

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...

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...

Ken Stott stars as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in this BBC Radio 4 production of Shakespeare’s notorious ‘Scottish play’.Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, describing how a lust...

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...