Directors, performers and theatre staff discuss their work
World Service,·219 episodes
Zoe Waites talks about playing Juliet in the RSC production of Romeo and Juliet
11 Nov 1997,·4 mins
Jack is Rudyard Kipling's son, David Haig discusses Kipling's role in Jack's death
31 Oct 1997,·4 mins
Polly Teale's adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel Jane Eyre
27 Oct 1997,·4 mins
Ian McKellen talks about playing Dr Tomas Stockmann in the play by Henrik Ibsen
22 Oct 1997,·4 mins
Michael Williams plays John Aubrey, a diarist/gossip living in the 17th Century
15 Oct 1997,·4 mins
John Shea talks about the piano at rehearsals of an opera
02 Oct 1997,·4 mins
A discussion of the play Looking for Mr Big
01 Oct 1997,·4 mins
The play Mosquitoes recalls the story of Ronald Ross who discovered malaria transmission
23 Sep 1997,·4 mins
South African playwright Athol Fugard talks about his play People are Living There
12 Sep 1997,·3 mins
Discussion of the play of the novel by RK Narayan - The Painter of Signs
07 Sep 1997,·3 mins
Director Stephen Unwin talks about Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull
04 Sep 1997,·4 mins
Playwright Samuel Adamson gives some background on his play Grace Note
26 Aug 1997,·3 mins
"She's a free-thinking spirit" Kate Duchêne on playing Shakespeare's daughter, Susanna
20 Aug 1997,·4 mins
Tanika Gupta describes the actions of Bengali Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary Dinesh Gupta, as outlined in her book, Voices On The Wind.
12 Aug 1997,·4 mins
Director Anthony Clark discusses Anton Chekhov's plays Uncle Vanya and The Wood Demon
04 Aug 1997,·3 mins
Mezzo soprano Sally Burgess talks about opera, concerts and jazz caberet
30 Jul 1997,·5 mins
Joe Boyd sells his soul to the devil for becoming the world's greatest baseball player
22 Jul 1997,·4 mins
Siân Phillips talks about playing Marlene Dietrich in Pam Gems's play Marlene
09 Jul 1997,·4 mins
Ian Talbot on producing A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare at the Open Air Theatre
19 Jun 1997,·4 mins
The legend of The Monkey King set in 1950s Hong Kong
13 Jun 1997,·4 mins
Gary Wilmot talks about the musical by Neil Simon, David Zippel and by Marvin Hamlisch
06 Jun 1997,·4 mins
David Hitchinson talks about his four part adaptation of Anna Karenina. How did he do it?
05 Jun 1997,·4 mins
Russell Dixon who is starring in the Alan Ayckbourn play Way Upstream talks about the play
03 Jun 1997,·4 mins
The scriptwriter Alby James discusses a story about a young Muslim Somali girl
22 May 1997,·4 mins
Actress Judi Dench discusses her latest role in Peter Tinniswood's A Very Rare Bird Indeed
15 May 1997,·4 mins
Actors talking about the stage show production of George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm
Ad de Bont talks about his play Mirad - A Boy from Bosnia about the refugees of war
29 Apr 1997,·4 mins
Discussion of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams with Laura Taylor
28 Apr 1997,·3 mins
The Broadway musical written by Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin and Moss Hart
24 Apr 1997,·4 mins
The non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes of dramatist Caryl Churchill
11 Apr 1997,·4 mins
