Spotlight Episodes Episode guide
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My Boy Jack
Jack is Rudyard Kipling's son, David Haig discusses Kipling's role in Jack's death
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Music and Sound Effects
Discussion about the music and sound effects for stage plays and silent films
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Mules
Commissioned by the Clean Break Theatre Company and written by Winsome Pinnock
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Movement on Stage
Discussion of performance and space on stage
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Mosquitoes
The play Mosquitoes recalls the story of Ronald Ross who discovered malaria transmission
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Modern Opera
"The newsreader is the closest thing we've got to a storyteller today"
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Review of Peter H酶eg's book, a thriller set in Denmark and the island of Gela Alta
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Miss Julie
The themes of sex and class make Strindberg's play appealing to British audiences
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Mirad - A Boy from Bosnia
Ad de Bont talks about his play Mirad - A Boy from Bosnia about the refugees of war
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Mill on the Floss
Polly Teale on physical theatre group Shared Experience's treatment of Eliot's novel
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Medea in the Mirror
Jose Triana's Medea in the Mirror is set in pre-revolutionary Cuba
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Maureen Lipman
Her one woman show, being in Blithe Spirit and the roles she likes playing
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Mary Guterson
International Radio Playwriting competition winner Mary Guterson
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Martin Guerre
Discussion of Cameron Macintosh musical Martin Guerre
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Marlene
Si芒n Phillips talks about playing Marlene Dietrich in Pam Gems's play Marlene
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Markerell
The director discusses Markerell of Wod Shopping played by Alun Armstrong
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Making the Environment Funny
"Some of the ideas I was having could end up being far too earnest"
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Making Radio Plays
David Hitchison on using techniques such as recording sound and creating sets
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Makeup Artists Tips and Tricks for the Theatre
"The eyes are the most important thing" - the transformation that theatre makeup makes
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Lyceum Theatre
There has been a Lyceum Theatre for 300 years - its restoration is discussed
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Louise Page
The Prisoner of Papa Stour is discussed by Louise herself
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Looking For Mr Big
A discussion of the play Looking for Mr Big
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London Film Exhibition
How London has been the subject of and setting for films over the last 100 years
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Little Eyolf
Joanne Pearce on being Rita Allmers in Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf
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Lights Out
Discussion with playwright Manjula Padmanabhan about her play Lights Out
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Discussion of Christopher Hampton's play Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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Laughter on the 23rd Floor
How Neil Simon first went to New York and began to write for comedian Sid Caesar
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Landslide
Prescient plot about the landslide victory of New Labour over the Conservatives in 1997
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Lady in the Dark
The Broadway musical written by Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin and Moss Hart
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Julius Caesar for an International Audience
Taking Shakespeare on tour to Africa and using local performers and dancers