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This autumn across the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ
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This autumn, the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ brings Shakespeare and
his stories to audiences with a variety of new
programmes and initiatives across its
services – television, radio, online and interactive.
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Shakespeare on Radio 3
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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 continues its
commitment to broadcasting
Shakespeare with two new
productions.
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Troilus and Cressida is
broadcast on Sunday 30 October at
6.30pm.
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Set during the Trojan War,
the play is both a story of doomed
love and a powerful, provocative
enquiry into ethics, values and the
slippery nature of truth.
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Paterson
Joseph plays Troilus, Nikki Amuka-Bird is
Cressida, Derek Griffiths is Pandarus
and Ulysses is Paul Rhys.
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Producer/Director is Marc Beeby.
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Pericles is broadcast on Sunday 27 November at 7.50pm. It tells the tale
of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and the
rise and fall in his fortunes over a 16-year odyssey.
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This new, fast-paced,
multicultural production taps
into contemporary global culture and
music and stars Benjamin Zephaniah as Gower, Tom Mannion as Pericles
and Sian Phillips as Diana.
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Producer/Director is Gaynor
Macfarlane.
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Scheduled to follow the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ ONE
modern interpretations, Radio 3
listeners have another chance to hear
Much Ado About Nothing on Sunday
13 November at 6.30pm, starring
David Tennant and Samantha Spiro as
the sparring lovers Benedick and
Beatrice.
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Producer/Director is Sally
Avens.
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Macbeth, on Sunday 20
November at 8.30pm - directed by
Richard Eyre, with Ken Stott taking
the leading role, and produced by
Kate Rowland.
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Also part of the Shakespeare season,
Twenty Minutes broadcasts a newly-commissioned ghost story by Fay
Weldon - inspired by Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale - on Saturday 3
December.
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Throughout
November, each weekday edition of
Morning On 3 features two pieces of
music inspired by Shakespeare.
(Monday to Friday from 7.00am to 10.00am).
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