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Play Not Known

An International Radio Playwriting Competition winner talks about her work and characters

• 4 mins

The Front Page

Actor Alun Armstrong discusses his character, an editor at the Chicago Examiner

• 4 mins

Death by Heroine

Playwright and director Mehrdad Seyf talks about his play Death by Heroine

• 3 mins

Flight

Ron Hutchinson on Mikhail Bulgakov's play

• 3 mins

Bernard Kops

Bernard Kops talks about the Holocaust poet Paul Celan and his own writing

• 4 mins

Play Not Known

Norman Rodway talks about his character Alfred, a foreign secretary

• 4 mins

Salzburg in London

Stage dramatist Marcy Kahan talks about her thriller Salzburg in London

• 3 mins

Cause C茅l猫bre

Amanda Harris talks about her role as Alma Rattenbury in Terence Rattigan's Cause C茅l猫bre

• 4 mins

Modern Opera

"The newsreader is the closest thing we've got to a storyteller today"

• 4 mins

Art

Yasmina Reza talks about her play about the breakup of a friendship

• 4 mins

Markerell

The director discusses Markerell of Wod Shopping played by Alun Armstrong

• 4 mins

Barbican Theatre

The challenges faced by the Barbican Theatre in London

• 4 mins

The Globe Theatre

Descriptions from the audience of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London

• 4 mins

Copenhagen

Michael Frayn on his play about the meeting of physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg

• 4 mins

The Process of Editing

The role an editor plays in whittling down a play when it is considered too long

• 4 mins

JM Barrie

Review of JM Barrie, the Scottish dramatist, and his most famous work Peter Pan

• 4 mins

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Phyllida Lloyd on the tale of an Edinburgh schoolteacher who holds her pupils in thrall

• 4 mins

Play Not Known

Discussion of a play with themes of abuse and love and the fine line between the two

• 4 mins

Hugh Jackman in Oklahoma!

"There's a real tension between men and women" Hugh Jackman on being Curly the cowboy

• 4 mins

Eyam - a Musical

An unlikely subject for a musical - the bubonic plague

• 4 mins

Doctor Dolittle

The West End show featuring a hundred Jim Henson puppets

• 3 mins

Julius Caesar for an International Audience

Taking Shakespeare on tour to Africa and using local performers and dancers

• 4 mins

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

The stage-play based on the novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

• 4 mins

Auditions

It's not a memory test. It's more a test of what someone is able to do"

• 4 mins

Death Catches the Hunter

The play's title means we are sometimes defeated by what we do best

• 4 mins

Play Not Known

John Clifford on his work with a translated 17th Century play

• 4 mins

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Discussion of Christopher Hampton's play Les Liaisons Dangereuses

• 4 mins

Acting in the Dark

An actor describes a show in which cast members cannot see each other

• 4 mins

Starstruck

Roy Williams talks about on his play in which film star Stewart Granger comes to Jamaica

• 3 mins

Music and Sound Effects

Discussion about the music and sound effects for stage plays and silent films

• 4 mins