Posted on March 12, 2009 in:
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I’ll be live on air with Dotun Adebayo and Up All Night this coming Sunday night / Monday morning, at 2am, discussing all things Shakespeare…
Click here to Listen Live and join in the discussion, or if for some ridiculous reason you’re not up so late (/early!) you’ll be able to Listen Again for a week following…
Posted on February 14, 2009 in:
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A review I gave late last year to About.com‘s Lee Jamieson on performing Shakespeare is now up:
You have to think about the big speeches in Shakespeare as the most important things the character has ever said; they need to be spoken with your chest cut open, your heart bare, and with tremendous passion. You need to tear the words from the sky. If you don’t feel like you’ve run a marathon when you’re done, you’re not doing it right. It takes courage to open yourself up to an audience like that, letting them see your insides without desperately trying to show them – it takes practice.
Click here to read more…
Posted on December 7, 2008 in:
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A radio interview recorded last Sunday with BBC Wales at the Hay-on-Wye Winter Weekend, will be broadcast at 5.30pm today, on Phil Rickman’s show Phil The Shelf.
The author and broadcaster Libby Purves was also interviewed, and I read a small extract from her writer-poet son’s book, Silence At The Song’s End.
Listen Live at www.bbc.co.uk/radiowales.
If you miss it, you can Listen Again here.
Posted on November 20, 2008 in:
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I’m being interviewed tonight by Dotun Adebayo at 3.30am, for his show Up All Night, on BBC Radio 5 Live.
If you’re up, you can listen live here… If you’re asleep, you can follow the same link for the next 7 days to Listen Again…
Posted on November 3, 2008 in:
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KIDS at a special school were treated to a visit by an actor and author attempting to serve up Shakespeare on toast.
Ben Crystal is on a mission to help people of all ages engage and understand one of this country’s writing greats.
See here for the article in full…
Posted on October 25, 2008 in:
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I was interviewed last night on PhoenixFM by the wonderful Muthamma Prasad. We chatted about favourite books, how Shakespeare is both over-rated and under-rated, cartoons, lifts with existential dread… If you missed it, you can hear the interview in full here…
Over the next few days, it’s all a bit busy…
Thurs 23rd, 12.30pm – Guildford Literature Festival, Electric Theatre
Fri 24th, 7-8pm – Phoenix FM Book Club – hour long radio interview with Muthamma Prasad – Click here to Listen Now
Sat 25th, 3pm – Peak Festival of Books, Countrybookshop, Hassop Station, Nr Bakewell, Derbyshire
TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE for both Guildford and the Peak Festival. Come one, come all…
Posted on October 21, 2008 in:
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I’m being interviewed on Gordon Astley’s mid-morning show about Shakespeare on Wednesday 22nd, at 11.40am.
You can Listen Live here…
Posted on October 14, 2008 in:
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…asked me recently to write my Top Ten Favourite Books…
I am approaching this from a Desert Island point of view, in that it is an impossible task to bring your favourite books down to a mere 10, much like that terrible equally impossible question, ‘What is your favourite film?’ How can you answer? In mentioning one you leave out twenty. After great deliberation, ranting and raving, here are ten of my most favourite – bearing in mind, Desert Island-like, I get the complete works of Shakespeare as standard, which I realized after selecting wasn’t included in the original ten, mea culpa. All of these books I have read and re-read. There’s just something about them that keeps me going back, like Scott’s Bladerunner and Kubrick’s The Shining…
See here for the Top Ten article in full…
Clare Ashford interviewed me recently for BBC Radio Shropshire, and the record is going out today (Monday 13th October) at around 2.40pm GMT.
Click here to listen live…