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UPDATE: Appreciating Shakespeare by Gideon Rappaport is now available as a BOOK (in hardcover and paperback) wherever books are sold. Offering knowledge and tools for appreciating Shakespeare's deep and universal meanings. Published by One Mind Good Press. Check it out. Questions?: Email DoctorRap@zohomail.com
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Uncited is the internet's least reliable English literature podcast. Join former English majors Amy and Chantelle as they revisit the good, the bad, and the spectacularly ridiculous literary works from their undergrad. Twitter: @UncitedPod Instagram: uncitedpod
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Shaky Understanding

Beverlee Jean and Allison Powell

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Join Beverlee Jean, a Shakespeare super-fan, and Allison Powell, a bard beginner, as they go through Shakespeare's works along with special guests from the plays themselves!
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Ripe Good Scholar

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We believe that to understand Shakespeare’s relevance today, we must understand the journey his texts have travelled through the years. Join us as we dive into the theaters, museums, and archives to discover that journey for ourselves. Feel free to contact me at ripegoodscholar@gmail.com
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The Orbiting Human Circus

WNYC Studios and Night Vale Presents

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Discover a wondrously surreal world of magic, music, and mystery. This immersive, cinematic audio spectacle follows the adventures of a lonely, stage-struck janitor who is drawn into the larger-than-life universe of the Orbiting Human Circus, a fantastical, wildly popular radio show broadcast from the top of the Eiffel Tower. WNYC Studios presents a special director’s cut of this joyous, moving break from reality. Starring John Cameron Mitchell, Julian Koster, Tim Robbins, Drew Callander, Su ...
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The Curzon Film Podcast

Interviews & Discussion on the latest quality & independent cinema releases

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Now on Acast: https://www.acast.com/thecurzonfilmpodcast Interviews and discussion about the latest high quality & independent cinema releases
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What happens when two bawdy, Early Modern word-nerds sit down to talk about all things Shakespeare? You get "The Hurly Burly Shakespeare Show!": an irreverent mix of entertainment and scholarly content suitable for novices and hard-core “Bardolaters” alike. Jess (The Scholar) and Aubrey (The Teaching Artist) discuss the plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as well as other fascinating aspects of the Early Modern period’s lively theatre and print culture. “The Hurly Burly Shak ...
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fromtheapron.com podcast is focused on community theatre and aims to promote local productions by interviewing the directors of plays. Each episode features an in-depth conversation with a different director, discussing their experience and approach to directing community theatre, as well as the themes and highlights of their current production. fta also encourages listeners to attend upcoming performances and support their local theatre community. By showcasing the creativity and passion of ...
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Full LP Mashup v1.3 Full credit to Kelly Clarkson for "Save You" and Big Wreck for "It Comes as No Surprise". Used without permission as a tribute to both original artists and to 3's mommy - for all she does and all she's put up with. I occasionally mashup songs, usually dedicated to someone or with something special in mind but always in honor of …
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Guy Masterson, one of the most well-known and well-respected theatre producers on the Edinburgh Fringe, this year celebrates his thirtieth consecutive festival season. However, he has announced that this is also to be his last festival visit as a producer. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to Guy just after the first performance of one of the shows…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of the great French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926) in London, initially in 1870 and then from 1899. He spent his first visit in poverty, escaping from war in France, while by the second he had become so commercially successful that he stayed at the Savoy Hotel. There, from his balcony, he began a ser…
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2024 marks twenty years since Just the Tonic venues first appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, although founder Darrell Martin had been putting on shows at the festival since 2002 and started the company by running Sunday night comedy clubs in 1994. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to Darrell before the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe about 20 years o…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling" (1749) by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), one of the most influential of the early English novels and a favourite of Dickens. Coleridge wrote that it had one of the 'three most perfect plots ever planned'. Fielding had made his name in the theatre with satirical plays that were so …
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It’s been a long road, but we have finally come to our Season 3 finale: ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE! If you thought Hamlet was incestuous…buckle up, friends, because things are about to get weird. And do especially mind the content notes on this one. CONTENT NOTEThis play and this episode depicts overt misogynist violence, including a graphic onstage m…
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Writer-director Paul Hendy brings back three comedians through performers Bob Golding, Damian Williams and Simon Cartwright. Every year, the Edinburgh Fringe programme features solo performances about real people, which in the past have included Bob Golding as Eric Morecambe in Tim Whitnall’s Morecambe from 2009, Damian Williams as Tommy Cooper in …
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This week we're talking about Emily Dickinson's poems and letters to her lifelong gal pal Susan Gilbert. References are mostly from Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert by Maria Popova. Happy Pride! P.S. The world's oldest queer book store, Glad Day, needs help keeping its doors open as one of the city's core safe spaces! Can yo…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the greatest poet of his age', Thomas Wyatt (1503 -1542), who brought the poetry of the Italian Renaissance into the English Tudor world, especially the sonnet, so preparing the way for Shakespeare and Donne. As an ambassador to Henry VIII and, allegedly, too close to Anne Boleyn, he experienced great privilege unde…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest European playwrights of the twentieth century. The aim of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was to make the familiar ‘strange’: with plays such as Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle he wanted his audience not to sit back but to engage, observe and discover the contradictions in life, and act o…
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Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Scotland and The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich are co-producing a new production of the stage musical Footloose, based on the ‘80s film of the same name that starred Kevin Bacon. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to New Wolsey Artistic Director Douglas Rintoul, who will direct the production, and Pitlochry’s Artistic D…
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This episode in our At the Movies series, we’re tackling everyone’s favourite childhood trauma, THE LION KING! With very special guest Arezou Amin, we tackle what Matthew Broderick is doing in this movie, how Hamlet’s dad pales in comparison to Mufasa, and to what extent Disney atones for its sins in the sequel. CONTENT NOTE: The Lion King famously…
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Guildford Shakespeare Company began with an outdoor production of Much Ado About Nothing in Guildford Castle Grounds in 2006. Eighteen years on, the company is celebrating its coming of age with a production of Romeo and Juliet which mostly takes place along Guildford High Street. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to the company’s founders, Matt Pi…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which the women of Athens and Sparta, led by Lysistrata, secure peace in the long-running war between them by staging a sex strike. To the men in the audience in 411BC, the idea that peace in the Peloponnesian War could be won so easily was ridiculous and the thought that their wives could hav…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Finnish epic poem that first appeared in print in 1835 in what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland, part of the Russian Empire and until recently part of Sweden. The compiler of this epic was a doctor, Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884), who had travelled the land to hear traditional poems about mythical heroes being sung…
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The 2024 summer season at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London will open with a new production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night Or What You Will directed by Owen Horsley, an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company and an Associate Director for Cheek by Jowl. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to Owen at a break during rehearsals …
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Actor, writer, choreographer and film-maker Lanre Malaolu’s play Samskara had a sell-out run at London’s Yard Theatre in 2022 and was subsequently published by Nick Hern Books. Now, I See is the second play of what has become a trilogy which, like the first part, examines family relationships through a modern black, British lens. BTG Editor David C…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dance which, from when it reached Britain in the early nineteenth century, revolutionised the relationship between music, literature and people here for the next hundred years. While it may seem formal now, it was the informality and daring that drove its popularity, with couples holding each other as they spun r…
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Actor Greg Hicks has played many leading roles at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company over the last forty years, as well as starring on the West End and appearing on screen in films including The Mercy and Snow White and the Huntsman. He is about to perform a one-man show, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, based on a short story by …
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A mini-semi-classic! Large's birthday continued. On our way to the Alamo. Fox News, car washes and no gummies. Three be continued... ThursdayThe12thPodcast@gmail.com Rated R. Listener discretion advised. Copyright 2024. Thank you for listening and God bless! Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thursday-the-12th/id1447422518 Websit…
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I'm sure he'll let me know if he wants this audio removed. Right. Props to 90 Day Fiance. ThursdayThe12thPodcast@gmail.com Rated R. Copyright 2024. Thank you for listening and God bless! Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thursday-the-12th/id1447422518 Website https://sites.libsyn.com/205751 https://sites.libsyn.com/205751/site A…
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's book which first appeared in print in 1865 with illustrations by John Tenniel. It has since become one of the best known works in English, captivating readers who follow young Alice as she chases a white rabbit, pink eyed, in a waistcoat with pocket watch, down a rabbit hole that becomes a well and in…
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This is a cute one. Big props to Big Wreck, Candlebox, Steelheart and everyone at Hogan's Hangout on Clearwater Beach in Florida. ThursdayThe12thPodcast@gmail.com Rated R. Copyright 2024. Thank you for listening and God bless! Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thursday-the-12th/id1447422518 Website https://sites.libsyn.com/20575…
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Props to Mr. Jim Cornette the night after Halloween. ThursdayThe12thPodcast@gmail.com Rated R. Copyright 2024. Thank you for listening and God bless! Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thursday-the-12th/id1447422518 Website https://sites.libsyn.com/205751 https://sites.libsyn.com/205751/site As always, thank you to Jason Bieler, …
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Props to Sean Cunningham, Victor Miller, Paramount Pictures, Harry Manfredini, John Carpenter and Apple Music for the Essential Halloween Horror Movie Theme Songs. Three be continued... ThursdayThe12thPodcast@gmail.com Rated R. Copyright 2024. Thank you for listening and God bless! Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thursday-the-…
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A regular trio (?) of quoons. Not our best audio. There is a lot of Halloween (and Friday the 13th) music playing in the background. Props to Harry Manfredini, John Carpenter, Apple Music, KISS et al. Three be continued... ThursdayThe12thPodcast@gmail.com Rated R. Copyright 2024. Thank you for listening and God bless! Apple Podcasts! https://podcas…
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