William Shakespeare
The Compass. Shakespeare in the World, Shakespeare and the American Dream - Part Two. Audio, 23 minutes
How Shakespeare became part of the fabric of early American life. With Stephen Sondheim.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Shakespeare 400, Shakespeare 400: Freedom of Speech or 'Nothing' - King Lear and Contemporary India. Audio, 15 minutes
Preti Taneja considers Shakespeare's King Lear as a lens through which to view India today
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Unavailable
The Essay. Shakespeare 400, Shakespeare 400: Wolf All? - Shakespeare and Food in Renaissance England. Audio, 15 minutes
Joan Fitzpatrick explains her new research on what people ate in Shakepeare's England.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Shakespeare 400, Shakespeare 400: Undiscovered Countries - Shakespeare and the Nation. Audio, 15 minutes
James Loxley explores what Shakespeare's plays say about questions of national identity.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Shakespeare's Bookshelf. Audio, 45 minutes
Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves on the books which inspired Shakespeare.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Radio 3 Documentary. Sunday Feature: First Folio Road Trip. Audio, 44 minutes
Emma Smith traces how Shakespeare's First Folio helped make our national poet
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Shakespeare 400, Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare and the Suffragettes. Audio, 15 minutes
How Shakespeare's heroines helped transform Victorian schoolgirls into Edwardian activists
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. First Folio Road Trip. Audio, 45 minutes
How Shakespeare's First Folio helped make a national poet and an international star.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC. Video, 143 minutes
A celebration of the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for over a year
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Video, 51 minutes
CBeebies stars perform William Shakespeare's famous comedy play.
- AttributionCBeebies
- Available for 10 months
Being Hamlet. Video, 52 minutes
Simon Russell Beale and Adrian Lester discuss this most celebrated and challenging role.
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
The Compass. Shakespeare in the World, Shakespeare and the American Dream - Part One. Audio, 27 minutes
How Shakespeare became part of the fabric of early American life
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
An Excellent Dumb Discourse: Shakespeare in Silence. Audio, 30 minutes
Professor Judith Buchanan shares her love and knowledge of Shakespeare in early films.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Real Pretenders. Audio, 60 minutes
Film critic Antonia Quirke investigates the evolution of acting.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Word of Mouth. How Shakespeare Spoke. Audio, 28 minutes
Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright discover how Shakespeare spoke.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Looking for the Moor. Audio, 45 minutes
Hugh Quarshie seeks resolution to the dilemmas of a black actor playing Othello.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Drama on 3. Macbeth. Audio, 120 minutes
A new production of Shakespeare's dark tragedy about ambition for power.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for 7 months
The Reunion. Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue MacGregor remembers Peter Brook's iconic Shakespearean production from 1970.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Being Orson, He that Plays the King. Audio, 15 minutes
Exploring Orson Welles's Shaksepeare film trilogy: Macbeth, Othello and Chimes at Midnight
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Drama on 3. As You Like It. Audio, 150 minutes
Shakespeare's pastoral comedy of love, lust, cross-dressing and mistaken identity.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for 7 months
- Attribution
- Posted9 February 2015
The Secretaries of Juliet. Audio, 30 minutes
Jolyon Jenkins meets the women of Verona who answer letters sent to Shakespeare's Juliet
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
More or Less. To ice or not to ice? Audio, 28 minutes
Should we be more choosy about who benefits when we do a viral charity challenge?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
