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Author, curmudgeon and master of the complaining letter and the abusive email, Ed Reardon is back for a 17th series, still attempting to survive in a world where the media seems to be run by idiots and lying charlatans...

Soulful dramas weaving folk lore, pagan rituals and love stories Soulful drama series infused with fact, lore and song, exploring nature and the climate via contemporary Paganism and its festive calendar. Modern Pagans have eight major festivals marking the turning of the seasons, collectively...

A comprehensive collection of classic works from some of Ireland’s finest authors, adapted as full-cast BBC radio dramas Ireland has a long tradition of storytelling, from ancient myths and mediaeval folk tales to 21st century bestsellers, Nobel Prize laureates and Booker Prize winners. Though...

Before the red curls, before the Tony Awards, and long before "Tomorrow" became a Broadway anthem, there was a dream, and a risky one at that. The Annie Phenomenon is the compelling behind-the-scenes story of how a scrappy comic strip orphan made an unlikely leap from the Sunday funnies to the...

A Year of Shakespeare gives a uniquely expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare celebration the world has ever known: the World Shakespeare Festival 2012. This is the only book to describe and analyse each of the Festival’s 73 productions in well-informed,lively reviews by...

Perfect for students of English Literature, Theatre Studies and American Studies at college and university, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a lucid and stimulating analysis of Willams' dramatic work by one of America's leading scholars. With the centennial of his birth celebrated amid...

This open access study offers queer readings of 10 key film productions of Shakespeare plays from the past 80 years. A range of mainstream and independent English language film productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice take...

BBC Full-Cast productions of some of Aristophanes finest comedies Aristophanes was a renowned Greek playwright who wrote around 450 BC. He is considered the Father of Comedy or the Prince of Ancient Comedy. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today...

The complete series 27 of the popular impressions show, plus two Specials The popular topical comedy show is back with another helping of political vituperation, media mauling and celebrity savaging. So sit back and treat your ears to a bumper helping of superb satirical impressions from the...

April De Angelis award winning radio plays April De Angelis is an award-winning playwright and writer, her work spans theatre, radio, and television, blending sharp wit with deep emotional insight. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020. Her plays have been produced...

A wide selection gritty and hard hitting plays from the award-winning English playwright Edward Bond Edward Bond was an English playwright, theatre director, poet, dramatic theorist and screenwriter. He was the author of some 50 plays, among them Saved (1965), the production of which was...

Bloomsbury presents Deafiant: My Journey in Theatre, written and read by Jenny Sealey. Jenny Sealey has spent her career to date championing the work of Deaf and Disabled artists and the importance of having their stories on our stages and screens. Now, she shares her own experience as a Deaf...

Bloomsbury presents Theatre and the USA by Charlotte Canning, read by Jennifer Woodward. How is the individual and the ‘nation’ constructed and promoted in American theatre? How does theatre enable a nation to invent and reinvent itself? Who are the ‘people’ in ‘We the People’? This...

Two outstanding plays from a major figure of British Edwardian theatre Harley Granville Barker was one of the most influential voices in early 20th-century drama – an actor, director and playwright whose work helped shape modern British theatre. His plays are celebrated for their psychological...

Bloomsbury presents Theatre and Dramaturgy by Zoe Svendsen, read by Jessica Alade. What is a dramaturg? What is dramaturgy? What are the political implications for the way that plays produce meaning in performance? Over the last decade, the role of the dramaturg has become more common in the...

Bloomsbury presents Theatre and Tourism by Margaret Werry, read by Laurence Bouvard. How does tourism impact theatre? How do theatrical ways of seeing, knowing, and acting shape tourism? How do economic and political processes like colonization or neoliberalization influence them both? And what...

Bloomsbury presents Theatre and Race by Harvey Young, read by Greg Lockett. Theatre and Race centers on the interrelationship of the words on either side of the ampersand. It offers an accessible overview of how race is performed and how western theatrical practice has wrestled with the topic...

From A Midsummer Night's Dream's Puck to Othello's Desdemona, this new edition of Speaking Shakespeare gives you all the necessary tools to bring any of Shakespeare's eclectic characters to life. Patsy Rodenburg uses practical exercises and textual analysis to hone in on your dramatic resonance...

For seven long years, Evan Landry kept a picture of their brother's killer taped to their prison cell wall, vowing that one day, he would be avenged. But when Evan finally comes face-to-face with the pub owner responsible, nothing is as it seems. They're left with more questions than answers, and so Evan sets out to prove that revenge on the gorgeous femme is justified.

Original plays and dramatisations from the award-winning novelist and playwright, plus bonus documentary Viewing the Century: Michael Frayn A renowned playwright, novelist, journalist, memoirist and translator, Michael Frayn has had a varied and prolific literary career spannning over seven...