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The Cherry Orchard

A light comedy or a serious drama?

• 3 mins

Faust

A discussion of the play of Faust by Goethe and today's notions of sin and evil

• 4 mins

This Lime Tree Bower

Irish playwright, Conor McPherson on his play set in an out of season seaside town

• 3 mins

Play Not Known

Jack, Vera and Hilary are travelling to Australia - Stephen is their steward on their ship

• 3 mins

Shakespeare's Othello

A discussion of Shakespeare's Othello and its issues of race and nationality

• 4 mins

Passion and Heathcliff

Helen Hobson on singing in musicals and playing Clara in Passion and Cathy in Heathcliff

• 4 mins

Scottish Drama at the Edinburgh Festival

Christopher Cook interviews an unspecified speaker about writing

• 3 mins

Jane Austen

Her family and private life, in particular her relationship with her sister Cassandra

• 4 mins

Truman Capote

A flamboyant writer who lived his life in public

• 4 mins

Athol Fugard

Writing for radio "It's as free as the human imagination" says South African Athol Fugard

• 3 mins

Julian Garner

Julian Garner discusses his play The Flight into Egypt

• 3 mins

Penecost

Play by Stewart Parker set in Belfast with four characters and a ghost

• 4 mins

Making the Environment Funny

"Some of the ideas I was having could end up being far too earnest"

• 4 mins

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

How Neil Simon first went to New York and began to write for comedian Sid Caesar

• 4 mins

John Matthew

"It is a farce about a serious subject" John Matthew's play set in Kerala in South India

• 4 mins

Play Not Known

"Writing for the page, writing for the eye is much different from writing for the ear"

• 4 mins

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