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The Cherry Orchard
A light comedy or a serious drama?
Faust
A discussion of the play of Faust by Goethe and today's notions of sin and evil
This Lime Tree Bower
Irish playwright, Conor McPherson on his play set in an out of season seaside town
Play Not Known
Jack, Vera and Hilary are travelling to Australia - Stephen is their steward on their ship
Shakespeare's Othello
A discussion of Shakespeare's Othello and its issues of race and nationality
Passion and Heathcliff
Helen Hobson on singing in musicals and playing Clara in Passion and Cathy in Heathcliff
Scottish Drama at the Edinburgh Festival
Christopher Cook interviews an unspecified speaker about writing
Jane Austen
Her family and private life, in particular her relationship with her sister Cassandra
Truman Capote
A flamboyant writer who lived his life in public
Athol Fugard
Writing for radio "It's as free as the human imagination" says South African Athol Fugard
Julian Garner
Julian Garner discusses his play The Flight into Egypt
Penecost
Play by Stewart Parker set in Belfast with four characters and a ghost
Making the Environment Funny
"Some of the ideas I was having could end up being far too earnest"
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
How Neil Simon first went to New York and began to write for comedian Sid Caesar
John Matthew
"It is a farce about a serious subject" John Matthew's play set in Kerala in South India
"Writing for the page, writing for the eye is much different from writing for the ear"
Radio Drama
Launch of the International Radio Playwriting Competition
Television and the Classic Serial
Alan Davies talks about dramatising classic novels of English literature
Lyceum Theatre
There has been a Lyceum Theatre for 300 years - its restoration is discussed
Interview on a play about the frailty of old age, the deviousness of old age, unfaithfulness, lies and deceit.
Martin Guerre
Discussion of Cameron Macintosh musical Martin Guerre
The Piano Turner's Wives
Dennis Hawthorne talks about Irish playwright William Trevor
Pantomime Dames
The role of the dame in British pantomime
Anna Wickham
Discussion of the poet Anna Wickham
Discussion of Anton Chekhov's Cherry Orchard
Tennesee Williams
Commentary on Tennesee Williams, American writer.
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
RADA as a vocational training school for actors and its focus on talent
Beauty and the Beast
The RSC version of the story of Beauty and the Beast by Laurence Boswell
Cirque du Soleil
Founding members of the Cirque du Soleil discuss how they came to be in Quebec
Theatre Agents
The excitement felt by the agent in finding a new talent or by securing work for those under their umbrella of care.
Guys and Dolls
"Musicals have this ability to intensify the experience of theatre"