From the series of talks I gave last week for Macmillan Poland…
Discussing the difference between performing Shakespeare in RP vs OP (Shakespeare’s accent); then performing Sonnet 116 in RP, and OP; and then reading from the opening chapter of Toast, Schwarzengger’s Hamlet…
Spent a fine morning being filmed running around the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre with Dad: he explaining the origins of the Original Pronunciation experiments, me acting some examples.
Performed excerpts from Henry V, Romeo & Juliet, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and all of Sonnet 116 – which sounds SO different in Shakespeare’s accent – then were interviewed about our work together.
All for an Open University film. Lovely to work with Dad again. Lovely to be back in that terrific space.
Now to Poland to give a series of Shakespeare talks, Ash Cloud permitting… (has it really been capitalised?)
A clip from BBC Blast’s film about the Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company’s production of Othello Retold, which I worked on last year…
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 4 Midweek, With Libby Purves
