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ShakespeaRe-Told
This autumn across the BBC
This autumn, the BBC brings Shakespeare and
his stories to audiences with a variety of new
programmes and initiatives across its
services – television, radio, online and interactive.
Shakespeare on BBC 7
BBC 7 is broadcasting two
Shakespeare plays from the archive, in
tandem with BBC ONE.
The audience
will be able to enjoy the brand-new The Taming Of The Shrew on
television and then hear a production of
the original on BBC 7 (via Digital TV,
Digital cable, DAB radio and online).
Listeners can also access the plays up
to seven days after transmission via
the audio on-demand feature on the
BBC 7 website (bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7).
The Taming Of The Shrew - Saturday 26 November at 1.00pm.
This production was first broadcast
on Radio 3 in 1988. It stars Bob Peck and Cheryl Campbell as Petruchio
and Katherina, with Robert Glenister and Douglas Hodge.
Stephen
Tompkinson, who stars in the new
television version, also appears in this
production as the youthful Lucentio.
Producer/Director is Jeremy Mortimer.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
On Saturday 3 December at 1.00pm,
David Threlfall, Samuel West, Richard
Griffths, Amanda Root and Sylvestra
Le Touzel lead the cast in this 1999
production for Radio 3.
Richard Griffiths is Bottom, David
Threlfall is Oberon/Theseus, Sylvestra
Le Touzel is Titania/Hippolyta, Samuel
West is Lysander and Amanda
Root is Hermia.
Producer/Director is Susan Roberts.
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