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BBC Proms: 2013 Season: Proms Plus Literary

BBC Proms: 2013: Proms Plus Literary: Playing Falstaff

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Playing Falstaff

24/07/2013

2013

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2013, Proms Plus Literary, Playing Falstaff

Timothy West and Desmond Barrit discuss Falstaff, one of Shakespeare's greatest characters

What makes Falstaff so irresistible to writers and composers? Timothy West and Desmond Barrit discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest characters.

What makes Falstaff, Prince Hal's fat, boastful and cowardly companion so irresistible to writers and composers? The character appears in several Shakespeare plays and in musical works by Verdi, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Salieri. Samira Ahmed talks to Timothy West and Desmond Barrit about their experience of playing one of Shakespeare's greatest characters.

Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music as one of this year's Proms Plus events.

BBC Proms: 2013

BBC Proms: 2013: Proms Plus Literary

Proms Plus Literary

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 119th season of the BBC Proms.

Series of events providing a context to the 2013 Proms season's music and artists

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