Reading the First Folio

Sir Richard Eyre on King Lear

Director Richard Eyre chooses a speech by Lear to his daughter Cordelia - Act 5, Scene 3.

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Reading the First Folio

Michelle Terry on As You Like It

Actor Michelle Terry chooses a speech by 'love doctor' Rosalind from Act 3, Scene 2.

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Reading the First Folio

Professor Islam Issa on Julius Caesar

Professor Islam Issa chooses a passage spoken by Julius Caesar in Act 2, Scene 2.

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Reading the First Folio

Sir David Hare on Macbeth

Playwright David Hare chooses Macbeth's imagining of old age from Act 5, Scene 3.

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Reading the First Folio

Professor Dame Marina Warner on Othello

Author and historian Marina Warner chooses a speech from early in Othello: Act 1, Scene 3.

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We Other Tudors

Lucy Baynham

Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.

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We Other Tudors

John Blanke

Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.

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We Other Tudors

John Cabot

Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.

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We Other Tudors

Aura Soltana

Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.

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We Other Tudors

Manteo

Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.

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We Other Tudors

Chinano 'the Turk'

Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.

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We Other Tudors

Mary Fillis

Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.

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We Other Tudors

Roderigo Lopez

Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England

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We Other Tudors

Mohammed al-Annuri

Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.

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We Other Tudors

Emilia Lanyer

Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.

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Death in Trieste

1. The Strange Case of Signor Gioanni

Seán Williams on the Italian real crime drama that became a myth of art, sex and death.

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Death in Trieste

2. The Trial

Seán Williams on the Italian real crime drama that became a myth of art, sex and death.

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Death in Trieste

3. I, Wincklemann

Seán Williams on the Italian real crime drama that became a myth of art, sex and death.

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Death in Trieste

4. From the Depths

Seán Williams on the Italian real crime drama that became a myth of art, sex and death.

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Death in Trieste

5. The Meaning of Nowhere

Seán Williams on the Italian real crime drama that became a myth of art, sex and death.

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Charles Aznavour in Five Songs

1: Emmenez-moi, by Muriel Zagha

The oeuvre of Charles Aznavour in just five songs.1: Emmenez-moi, by Muriel Zagha.

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Charles Aznavour in Five Songs

2: La Bohème (1965)

The astonishing oeuvre of Charles Aznavour in five songs. 2: La Bohème, by Lucy O'Meara.

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Charles Aznavour in Five Songs

3: Après l’amour, by Paul Morley

Charles Aznavour's astonishing oeuvre in five songs. 3: Après l’amour, by Paul Morley.

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Charles Aznavour in Five Songs

4: The Old Fashioned Way, by Paul French

Charles Aznavour's genius in five songs. 4: The Old Fashioned Way, by Paul French.

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Charles Aznavour in Five Songs

5: They Fell, by Nare Mkrtchyan

Charles Aznavour's astonishing career in five songs. 5: They Fell, by Nare Mkrtchyan.

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Journeys to the Grave

Lauren Elkin on Oscar Wilde

Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Paul Muldoon on WB Yeats

Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Diana Souhami on Radclyffe Hall

Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Anita Sethi on Anne Brontë

Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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Journeys to the Grave

Paterson Joseph on Ignatius Sancho

Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.

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