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A 1956 televised production of Shakespeare's last play The Tempest.
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play: Prospera is banished from Milan by her brother and finds herself stranded on an island with her daughter, where she wait...
A 1980 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakespeare project.
Pre-school children's arts and animated disability programme: The Tempest by William Shakespeare. To celebrate the 400-year...
A personal introduction to The Tempest by actor Michael Hordern, who played Prospero in the BBC TV Shakespeare production. "I would wis...
Shakespeare's The Tempest as part of the Shakespeare Unlocked season, adapted for radio and directed by Jeremy Mortimer. Music written and performed...
Royal Shakespeare Company director Trevor Nunn explores Shakespeare's final work, The Tempest.
A magic island, a stormy shipwreck and a royal mystery in CBeebies The Tempest!
Laurens van der Post offers a personal view of the play The Tempest which he describes as profoundly autobiographical - an explorati...
Poetry or prose readings, read this week by guest presenter Lord Laurence Olivier. The choices include the epilogue from The T...
Shakespeare as you've never seen it before: The Tempest is played by a cast of amateur actors and musicians from Cardiff's Tiger Bay, under the direc...
A full BBC radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. Magically, Prospero creates a storm at sea and causes the ship bearing his enemies to be sh...
The Tempest presented in puppet animation with text abridged by Leon Garfield; with the voices of Martin Jarvis, Timothy ...
With a spirit of the supernatural, The Tempest is a story of forgiveness, generosity and enlightenments set on a remote and ...
Neil Oliver performs the lead role in an extract from Shakespeare's The Tempest on the stage of a remarkable coastal amphitheatre near Land's End. Neil d...
Trevor Nunn investigates the real life event that inspired Shakespeare to write 'The Tempest'.
Trevor Nunn addresses how 'The Tempest' has been understood through theories of race and colonialism.
The fourth of four new productions as part of Radio 3's on-going Shakespeare series, introduced by Richard Eyre.
Ahead of a performance of the play on Radio 3, Philip Dodd presents a programme devoted to Shakespeare's The Tempest. With director Jona...
Join William Shakespeare on CBeebies Radio as he tells the story of powerful Prospero, invisible Ariel and what happened when they cast a magical spel...
Shakespeare's play explores the relationship between humanity and the environment. A Scottish cast, led by Ian McDiarmid as Prospero, in this play o...
Shakespeare's plays, acted out by performers such as Suellen Carvalho, appeal to Brazilians for their mix of sex, politics and intrigue.
"It's 23rd April 1616 (approximately) - the day William Shakespeare died. Follow events as they unfold, as the nation mourns the playwright....
In the heat of the summer of 1976, a drama teacher tries to put on an end-of-year music version of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Contains strong language.
This film goes behind the scenes at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon to watch various stages of a production of The Tempest. I...
Selections of poetry on various themes, chosen by listeners. Gareth Owen celebrates Shakespeare's birthday with readings chosen and performed by...
A Welsh language performance of The Tempest from the Animated Shakespeare series.
Trevor Nunn investigates the central character of Prospero, in 'The Tempest'.
An exploration of the character of Ariel from 'The Tempest'.
The island in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' becomes the perfect place for imagining perfect societies.
Trevor Nunn investigates the tension between 'good' and 'bad' magic in 'The Tempest'.
From a film adaptation of 'The Tempest', Prospero's story of how he ended up on the island.
From a film adaptation of 'The Tempest', Ariel begs Prospero for his freedom.
From a film adaptation of 'The Tempest', Caliban tells his story.
From a film adaptation of 'The Tempest', the comedic scene when Caliban and Trinculo first meet.
From a film adaptation of 'The Tempest', over watched by Prospero, Ferdinand and Miranda fall in love.
From a film adaptation of 'The Tempest', Prospero's famous soliloquy.
Professor Aimara Resende explains Shakespeare's hold on the peoples of South America. She also asks how The Tempe...
The Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale is today's guest presenter. He shares his insights and thoughts into the plots and cha...
Arts documentary examining cinema adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, notably King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo and...
Paul Alexander reads extracts from Shakespeare's As You Like It (All the World's a Stage) and The Tempest (Prospero's Epilogue).
Selections of poetry on various themes, chosen by listeners. This episode contains Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare read by Richard Pasco,...
Celebrity Shakespeare devotees join members of the public to recite some of Shakespeare’s best-known and best-loved ...
Featuring Where the Bee Sucks there suck I - Ariel, Act 5 Sc 1 The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 sc 4, Queen Mab speech (Mercutio), A M...
Music inspired by Shakespeare, including Mendelssohn's overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Arthur Sullivan's...
Featuring William Shakespeare: The Tempest (Act V).
Trevor Nunn explains how the atmosphere of a storm can be created on stage.
Trevor Nunn explores Shakespeare's strange and controversial character Caliban.
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