Directors, performers and theatre staff discuss their work
World Service,路219 episodes
"Sport is theatre" Shelley Webb, author of Footballers' Wives, on using sport in drama
Why this popular English poet was so appealing
True story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby, Jordan, rather than have him taken away
Ian Sharrock talks about the preparation - the movement and voice coaching - he had to do
Judith Matrell discusses the work of the critic
Working with fake blood and stage swords and how to design them
Trapdoors in the stage, making props look old and making scenery
Eminent British sculptor and professor at the Royal College of Art talks about his work
Alan Strachan talks about classical British actor Sir Robert Stephens
Penny Ciniewicz says "We want to promote the work of writers in all their diversity.
Adding a commentary to a visual performance for the benefit of people who are blind
Andrew Verster discusses his new play and the unusual way in which he works.
Michael Holden on plans for the open air Elizabethan theatre in London, UK
An unknown speaker describes a character as a "very convivial person with much bonhomie"
Jude Kelly talks about King Lear "You have to approach a play as if it is new".
Nicholas Parsons on his role as narrator in The Rocky Horror Show
David Troughton's RSC performance of Richard III who plays a "real Richard"
Gordon House discusses School for Wives and Death and the Maiden
Interview with Danny Hoch a New York actor performing in a one man show called Some People
The Leicestershire Youth Arts performance inspired by the music of Jimi Hendrix
"I come to everything because I love the theatre" Theatre fan on theatre in Stoke on Trent
Victorian stage actor, with an unusual walk, oversaw the Lyceum Theatre
"I didn't want them to be at all cartoony or any of the violence in it to become cartoony"
Graham Harper talks about techniques used in radio plays such as background sound
The transition from drama school to acting professionally and a love for theatre over TV
For plays such as The Woman in Black sound helps the audience create a mental picture
David Hitchison on using techniques such as recording sound and creating sets
"The eyes are the most important thing" - the transformation that theatre makeup makes
Barbara Kinghorn takes visitors behind the scenes at London's famous theatres
Miriam Margolyes talks about Frank Marcus's play The Killing of Sister George