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Radio Drama

Launch of the International Radio Playwriting Competition

• 3 mins

Television and the Classic Serial

Alan Davies talks about dramatising classic novels of English literature

• 28 mins

Lyceum Theatre

There has been a Lyceum Theatre for 300 years - its restoration is discussed

• 3 mins

Play Not Known

Interview on a play about the frailty of old age, the deviousness of old age, unfaithfulness, lies and deceit.

• 4 mins

Martin Guerre

Discussion of Cameron Macintosh musical Martin Guerre

• 3 mins

The Piano Turner's Wives

Dennis Hawthorne talks about Irish playwright William Trevor

• 4 mins

Pantomime Dames

The role of the dame in British pantomime

• 4 mins

Anna Wickham

Discussion of the poet Anna Wickham

• 4 mins

The Cherry Orchard

Discussion of Anton Chekhov's Cherry Orchard

• 4 mins

Tennesee Williams

Commentary on Tennesee Williams, American writer.

• 4 mins

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

RADA as a vocational training school for actors and its focus on talent

• 3 mins

Beauty and the Beast

The RSC version of the story of Beauty and the Beast by Laurence Boswell

• 4 mins

Cirque du Soleil

Founding members of the Cirque du Soleil discuss how they came to be in Quebec

• 4 mins

Theatre Agents

The excitement felt by the agent in finding a new talent or by securing work for those under their umbrella of care.

• 4 mins

Guys and Dolls

"Musicals have this ability to intensify the experience of theatre"

• 4 mins

Three Hours After Marriage

Discussion of this restoration comedy written in 1717

• 4 mins

Preparing for Auditions

Preparations for an audition through the eyes of the actor

• 4 mins

The Woman in Black

The classic ghost story play, adapted from Susan Hill's short story by Stephen Mallatratt

• 4 mins

The Cripple of Inishmaan

The play by Martin McDonagh as described by the actor who plays Billy Claven

• 4 mins

The Human Voice

Training the voice - an actor describes voice production in theatres

• 4 mins

Landslide

Prescient plot about the landslide victory of New Labour over the Conservatives in 1997

• 4 mins

Maureen Lipman

Her one woman show, being in Blithe Spirit and the roles she likes playing

• 4 mins

Caryl Churchill

The non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes of dramatist Caryl Churchill

• 4 mins

Lady in the Dark

The Broadway musical written by Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin and Moss Hart

• 4 mins

The Glass Menagerie

Discussion of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams with Laura Taylor

• 3 mins

Mirad - A Boy from Bosnia

Ad de Bont talks about his play Mirad - A Boy from Bosnia about the refugees of war

• 4 mins

Animal Farm

Actors talking about the stage show production of George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm

• 4 mins

A Very Rare Bird Indeed

Actress Judi Dench discusses her latest role in Peter Tinniswood's A Very Rare Bird Indeed

• 4 mins

Alby James

The scriptwriter Alby James discusses a story about a young Muslim Somali girl

• 4 mins

Way Upstream

Russell Dixon who is starring in the Alan Ayckbourn play Way Upstream talks about the play

• 4 mins