The workshop as part of Akala’s HipHop Shakespeare Company Othello Retold project with BBC Blast can now be seen on the BBC iPlayer…
And my father, David Crystal, has written a blog-post about it, so touched was he by one of the sequences…
CNN Clip, April 2009
I was asked to appear on CNN for Shakespeare’s 445th birthday… Here’s the clip:
Meet The Author, 2008
The video below was made for the Meet The Author website. In it, I talk about exactly why Shakespeare on Toast is so different from all the other books on Shakespeare out there…
Richard & Judy, 2005
Okay, so I just dug this out, a video clip of when I was asked onto C4′s Richard & Judy chat-show, to talk about a copy of the 1623 First Folio that’d been found in an attic… Enjoy!
Click the links to listen to the interviews…
Interview with Libby Purves on BBC Radio 4′s Midweek, from June 10th, 2009
Interview with Ian McMillan on BBC Radio 3′s The Verb, from 19th June, 2009 – talking in & about Original Pronunciation – Shakespeare’s accent…
Interview with Phil Rickman on BBC Radio Wales, from December 7th, 2008 — recorded at the Hay Winter Weekend, Shakespeare on Toast “breaks new ground” says Phil, while I explain just why Shakespeare’s poetry is so interesting and so misunderstood…
Interview with Trisha Goddard on CityTalk FM, from September 14th 2008 — talking about whether Shakespeare is still relevant…
Interview with Muthamma Prasad for her BookClub show on PhoenixFM, from October 24th 2008 — talking about my favourite books, reading experiences, and of course, Shakespeare…
2008
September
1st, BBC Asian Network, Nikki Bedi
3rd, RTE, Morning Show, Tom Dunne
5th, BBC Radio Kent, Pat Marsh Show
6th, BBC Radio London, JoAnne Good
8th, BBC Radio Shropshire, Clare Ashford
8th, BBC Radio Wales, Roy Noble
10th, BBC Radio Leith
11th, Radio Mediterraneo FM, Hannah Murray
14th, BBC Radio Lincolnshire
14th, CityTalk FM, Trisha Goddard
30th, BBC Radio Cambridge, Sue Dougan
October
24th, Phoenix FM, Muthamma Prasad’s Bookclub
November
20th, BBC Radio 5 Live, Dotun Adebayo
2009
March
15th, BBC Radio 5, Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo
April
23rd, CNN, Around the World with Becky Anderson
June
10th, 9am BBC Radio 4, Midweek with Libby Purves
11th, 10am BBC Radio Bristol, Graham Torrington’s show
19th, 9.15pm BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 3′s The Verb, with Ian McMillan
The interview clip from last week’s The Verb on BBC Radio 3, where I talked in & about Original Pronunciation – Shakespeare’s accent – with Ian McMillan is now up.
Listen here…!
I’ll be speaking about Shakespeare’s accent, and giving a few blasts of Original Pronunciation, tonight on BBC Radio 3‘s The Verb, at 9.15pm…
Guests include the poets Caroline Bird, Laura Dockrill aka Dockers MC, Jen Hadfield and the musician Leafcutter John…
Tune in if you can…
Two radio interviews over the next two days…
Tomorrow (18th June, 11.05am) I’m catching up with BBC Radio Somerset‘s Elise Rayner, after last week’s wonderful bookshop event at Brendan Books…
And then on 19th June, 9.15pm, I’ll be on BBC Radio 3‘s The Verb, with Ian McMillan, talking in & about the accent Shakespeare spoke in, Original Pronunciation, ahead of next week’s talk at the Globe…
Tune in, if you can…
Speaking tomorrow at Brendan Books (shortlisted for the Independent Bookshop of the Year) at 7pm:
Ben has been described at the “Jamie Oliver of Shakespeare” and will be covering facts about Shakespeare’s language, examples of how Shakespeare would have sounded in his day…
…says the Somerset County Gazette, and indeed I will…
Also, ahead of the talk I’ll be on Graham Torrington’s show on BBC Radio Bristol at 10am…
Tune in and turn up, if you can…!
Click the link below to listen…
Last week’s Toast talk at the Notting Hill Waterstones went tremendously well, now to this week…
Tune in tomorrow at 9am – or via the iPlayer for the following week, to hear me being interviewed on Midweek, BBC Radio 4, by Libby Purves, with international art dealer Philip Mould, the amazing sitar player Baluji Shrivastav, and the author and Times columnist Stefanie Marsh… The show will be repeated at 9.30pm…
Listen to the clip here, or Listen Again to the full interview here…
CNN segment on YouTube:
I’m appearing on CNN tonight, in celebration of Will’s birthday, talking about all things Shakespeare.
Do tune in if you can. The show is Connect the World: With Becky Anderson and is on 9pm-10pm GMT.
Best – and Happy Birthday Will!
B
