We mentioned the play Arden of Faversham a couple of times - which coincidentally happens to be my #AudioDrama choice for April, as you'll see below...
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#ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧
#Shakespeare #RadioDrama @beyondshakes.bsky.social
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This was a challenge - but an enjoyable one: Talk about #ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧 without mentioning #Shakespeare
Actually, I didn't do badly and had a great time talking to Robert Crighton about early modern playwrights and how their work has been interpreted for audio
#RadioDrama #AudioDrama
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🚨Latest pod drop - it's a chat with @audioandrea.bsky.social about pre-modern drama on the radio. And by radio we mean the BBC. Though other audio drama producers are available upon request. #drama #audio audioboom.com/posts/888038...
This month's #AudioDrama recommendation could be called a true crime podcast/black comedy crossover.
April: Arden of Faversham
Sometimes attributed to #Shakespeare, it's the story of a series of bungled attempts to kill, until...
#BBCSounds #RadioDrama #DramaOn3
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First publication of the year – a review of #TwelfthNight at the Cambridge Arts Theatre by the Marlowe Society.
You can find it here: doi.org/10.1080/1745...
Or if you don’t have a login, this link will take you to an open access version: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5TCUJ...
#Shakespeare 🎭
“A delight… something between a documentary jukebox and an audio seance” - pick of the day, @radiotimes.bsky.social
In tonight’s Archive on 4, Eleanor McDowall listens to the spirits of radio’s past and asks how our memory of radio might shape its future.
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'I lean on the Clive James idea that a poem is the only art form where you can order a coffee, and even before the drink has gone cold, you could have written something that will still be read in 500 years’ time.' – Rishi Dastidar
Read the interview here: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ri...
Hoorah!
One step closer...
#CityOfCulture #Ipswich
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@ipswichnews.bsky.social
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You have just about 24 hours left to view the @nationaltheatre.org.uk production of The Importance of Being Earnest for free on YouTube! It is an absolute delight and I want everyone to watch it! (Do it! Right now!)
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Saw this in the cinema and it really is a joyous production. And the best Lady Bracknell you’ll ever see.
I write for ease & for strengthening of my memory, & it may be for future ages, when the law of love will be more naturalized among you ~ Ann Bathurst, 1694
I get goosebumps when C17th women directly address future readers! They hoped the future would be more open to them than was their present
Back when I was a young journalist, my voice was a barrier to my career... And I am far from alone in this, as I explained in a previous edition of #BBCRadio4's #FreeThinking with @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social - still available on #BBCSounds (2/2)
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Last week, while talking #podcasts with our MBA students, we touched on attitudes to the female voice - and coincidentally this was the subject of #BBCRadio4's #FreeThinking with @shahidhabari.bsky.social
It's something that's a key issue for me... (1/2)
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A few piccies of our beautiful new library at the #UniversityOfSuffolk
Some really great study spaces, easy to find study aids and a lovely airy atmosphere.
Obviously I headed for 822.33 (Dewey decimal code for #Shakespeare) and was delighted to find #ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧
#LibraryLove 📕📘📗📒💛📚📚📚📚
@radiotimes.bsky.social Worth a reminder... 👇
Thank you! That's plenty to keep me going 👍🎧
That's a very specific era of audio drama you mention - any particular plays/shows I should be looking out for? And on which platforms? Many thanks 🎧🎭💛
Here's a mystery for #WorldBookDay. In 1933 it was claimed that Wilson and Keppel's Betty was a novelist and short story writer using the name B. Knox. I've yet to find any of her fiction. Have you?
Much more on the sand dancing trio in Too Naked For The Nazis. www.amazon.co.uk/Wilson-Keppe...
I'm glad to hear that. I really do miss #DramaOn3. I've nothing against the plays produced for Radio 4, but they are a different beast. It seems such a missed opportunity too with Audible very prominently promoting its new audio offerings...
90’ R4 dramas are coming… but that doesn’t change the fact it was a terrible decision and reflects a major problem with the support for scripted fiction on BBC Radio.
And here you can read a column I wrote for @thestage.co.uk (before the cut) about why Drama on 3 should have been saved. Available in full here: www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/opin...
Don't let #DramaOn3 die in vain! It's still there - albeit hidden away - so do use it 📻🎧🎭
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Below you'll find an excerpt of a video I posted on Instagram in support of the Save Audio Drama campaign that was run by the @writersguildgb.bsky.social, @equityuk.bsky.social and the @societyofauthors.bsky.social
More on the campaign here: writersguild.org.uk/wggb-campaig...
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A year ago today, the last #DramaOn3 was broadcast on #BBCRadio3 #RIP
However, while the campaign to stop the axe did not succeed (and the promised monthly, extended dramas on #BBCRadio4 never really materialised) Drama on 3 still exists on #BBCSounds
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Wolsey Writers in progress, a creative writing community upstairs at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Gemma Cooper, Managing Editor at Gemini Books, is talking on the mic. The writers are listening intently and smiling. Gemma wears a pink maxi dress with flowers.
Wolsey Writers in progress, a creative writing community upstairs at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. The writers are busy writing in their notebooks
Wolsey Writers in progress, a creative writing community upstairs at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Gemma Cooper, Managing Editor at Gemini Books, is talking one-to-one with writers who are queuing up to meet her. Gemma wears a pink maxi dress with flowers, and is holding a dinosaur picture book.
THANK YOU to Gemma Cooper @geminibooks.bsky.social for a truly inspiring and informative #MeetTheEditor & Picture Book themed #WolseyWriters. OMG we could have spent all day long with you Gemma, and we learned so much! And Thank You to New Wolsey Theatre @dougrintoul.bsky.social for welcoming us x
As it's a beautiful #spring day here in #Ipswich I thought I'd take four of our #UniversityOfSuffolk MA anthologies out for a little fresh air.
Available in all good bookshops and online retailers
#WorldBookDay
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And you can read John’s review in full here: doi.org/10.1080/0143...
Shakespeare on the Radio: A Century of BBC Plays was named as a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. It’s published by @edinburghup.bsky.social You can find out more here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shakesp...
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Smith's work 'is insightful' and 'Shakespeare on the Radio is a valuable primer. It is also persuasive in arguing for the interest and value of the recordings available for others to enjoy, to explore and to extend the critical strategies initiated here.’ John Wyver, University of Westminster
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A 'fascinating history in an underrepresented area of Shakespeare studies… One of the strengths of the volume is Smith’s detailed case studies..., tracking changes in preferred plays, actor choices, and audience and critical responses.’
K. J. Wetmore Jr., Loyola Marymount University
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‘Forget the old chestnut that if Shakespeare were alive now, he’d be writing for Hollywood: Andrea Smith makes clear that he’d be writing for the verbal, imaginative medium of radio. This revelatory book opens a fascinating new field of study.’
Emma Smith, University of Oxford
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