Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show live from Stratford-upon-Avon for the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare. Show more
Andrew McGregor presents a special live edition from Stratford-upon-Avon. Includes Building a Library: Verdi's Falstaff; Shakespeare on Record: The bard's verse on disc. Show more
Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith are the readers in a sequence of texts and music inspired by an important Shakespearean theme: the power of royalty. Show more
Tom Service explores the music in Shakespeare's plays and Shakespearean music from the BBC archives, with composer Gary Carpenter and theatre historian Sarah Lenton. Show more
Live from Stratford-upon-Avon as part of Radio 3's Shakespeare celebrations, pianist Richard Sisson and friends attempt to perform music from every single Shakespeare play. Show more
News from the weekend's anniversary events in Stratford-upon-Avon, with Suzy Klein and guests.
Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, soprano Ruby Hughes and lutenist Jon Nordberg perform music from the time of Shakespeare, including John Dowland and Robert Johnson. Show more
Matthew Sweet joins the BBC Concert Orchestra in Stratford-upon-Avon for a programme of film music inspired by the plays of William Shakespeare. Including music from Henry V. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents requests and surprise guests live from Stratford-upon-Avon. Show more
Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, a sequence of music and texts inspired by the important Shakespearean theme of jealousy. With readings by Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith. Show more
Live from Stratford-upon-Avon for Radio 3's Sounds of Shakespeare weekend, the BBC Singers under James Morgan perform Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music. Show more
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, a performance of Verdi's Otello. With Aleksandrs Antonenko in the title role and Hibla Gerzmava as his wife Desdemona. Show more
Esther Wilson's drama in response to Shakespeare's Sonnet No 73. At night in Manchester a girl plans to end her life, though an old lady has other ideas. Reader: Maxine Peake. Show more
In response to Shakespeare's Sonnet 140, Lee Mattinson's drama about a man trying to find his way home from a nightclub, pursued by a talking tongue. Reader: Maxine Peake. Show more
For Radio 3's Shakespeare weekend, Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Tom Service introduce adventurous 21st-century responses to the Bard's work. Recorded in Stratford-upon-Avon. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents swinging impressions of Shakespeare, including Cleo Laine and John Dankworth's Shakespeare and All that Jazz, and Duke Ellington's suite Such Sweet Thunder. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents music inspired by Shakespeare performed in Barcelona by the Palau de la Musica Chamber Chorus. Show more
