The Sunday Play | A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Sunday Play | A Midsummer Night's Dream

Radio 3's Shakespeare season continues with a 1999 radio adaptation of the Bard's magical comedy. This production was broadcast a...

The Sunday Play | Antony and Cleopatra

Shakespeare's classic story of love and war in a vivid new production made in association with Northern Broadsides Theatre Company, w...

The Sunday Play | As You Like It

A 2000 BBC radio adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. Shakespeare's forest of Arden liberates those banished from the repressive...

The Sunday Play | Cymbeline

A 1996 BBC radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline. Juliet Stevenson stars as Imogen, whose love for Posthumus is tested to its utmost a...

The Sunday Play | Hamlet

A 1999 radio adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy play. This production was broadcast as part of the BBC’s Shakespeare for the New Millennium...

The Sunday Play | Henry IV Part I

A BBC radio Shakespeare adaptation of Henry IV Part I which features Falstaff, Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, who latches on to Hal...

The Sunday Play | Henry IV Part II

A BBC radio Shakespeare adaptation of Henry IV Part II. Despite defeat, the rebels are still plotting against King Henry, who has fallen s...

The Sunday Play | Julius Caesar (1990)

A production of William Shakespeare's play about Julius Caesar, "the noblest Roman of them all".

The Sunday Play | Julius Caesar (1995)

A BBC Radio Shakespeare adaptation of Julius Caesar with an American cast, this production was recorded in the studios of KCRW, Los An...

The Sunday Play | Julius Caesar (1999)

Radio 3's Shakespeare season continues with a 1999 radio adaptation of the Bard's classic tragedy. It is Italy 1925, and Julius Caesar...

The Sunday Play | King Lear

The first of four new productions as part of Radio 3's on-going Shakespeare series, introduced by Richard Eyre. This tragic story of the conseque...

The Sunday Play | Macbeth (1992)

A production of Macbeth by William Shakespeare.

The Sunday Play | Macbeth (2000)

A 2000 BBC radio adaptation of Shakespeare's play Macbeth. Richard Eyre, one of the country's greatest theatre directors, makes his radio de...

The Sunday Play | Measure for Measure

A 1994 radio adaptation of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare. Vincentio realises that the moral climate of his dukedom has suf...

The Sunday Play | Much Ado About Nothing

The second of four new productions as part of Radio 3's on-going Shakespeare series. Richard Eyre introduces a new production of Sha...

The Sunday Play | Othello

The third of four new productions as part of Radio 3's on-going Shakespeare series, introduced by Richard Eyre. Set in the-mid 20th century, jazz s...

The Sunday Play | Richard III

A Radio Drama North production in collaboration with Northern Broadsides Theatre Company who bring Shakespeare's most famous antihero to life i...

The Sunday Play | Romeo and Juliet (1993)

A production of Shakespeare's 'Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy' in a co-production between Radio 3 & the Renaissance Theatre ...

The Sunday Play | Romeo and Juliet (1999)

A 1999 BBC radio adaptation of Shakespeare's best-loved play, in an updated version which sees love not as a unifying power amidst ...

Sunday Play | Twelfth Night

The Bard's comedy of mistaken identity, cruel practical jokes and lovelorn suitors. A blast of winter sunshine as the world is turned upside-down...

The Sunday Play | The Taming of the Shrew

A 2000 BBC radio adaptation of Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare's comedy combines a mixture of farce, disgui...

The Sunday Play | The Tempest

The fourth of four new productions as part of Radio 3's on-going Shakespeare series, introduced by Richard Eyre.

The Sunday Play | Twelfth Night (1993)

A 1993 production of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. A blast of winter sunshine as the world is turned upside-down in this magic...

The Sunday Play | Twelfth Night (1998)

A 1998 radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night. On the night when all the world is turned on its head and all authority u...