Sheila Hancock explores Shakespearean language.
Andrew McAllister introduces Maya Angelou in performance at the Hay-on-Wye festival. The performances include 'My bonnie lies over the ocean',...
Selections of poetry on various themes, chosen by listeners. Ian McMillan introduces listeners' requests for favourite sonnets. These includ...
In response to Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, Tom Wells's drama about a waiter who arrives late to the restaurant where he works, finding his boss in a bad moo...
A schools programme which looks at the form and content of a selection of sonnets from William Wordsworth, Philip Sidn...
Celebrity Shakespeare devotees join members of the public to recite some of Shakespeare’s best-known and best-loved speeches and son...
Selections of poetry on various themes chosen by listeners. In the start of a new series, Roger McGough celebrates Shakespeare's 439th birth...
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