The Sunday Play | Othello
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 sets the tone, ranging from the 78rpm gramophone record that Othello plays to Desdemona when they arrive in Cyprus (their safe arrival is broadcast on Radio Cyprus), to the apparently uncontrolled singing (Jazz singer Julie Tippetts) that is heard just before Iago sets out to "kill men i’ the dark".
TweetLicence: ERA Licence required
- Type: Plays
- Channel: BBC Radio 3
- Duration: 3'05'05''
- Broadcast date: 2001
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
![BBC Logo](https://era.org.uk/app/themes/bm-era/images/bbc-logo-black-and-white.png)
More episodes from this series
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Antony and Cleopatra
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | As You Like It
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Cymbeline
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Hamlet
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Henry IV Part I
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Henry IV Part II
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Julius Caesar (1990)
The Sunday Play | Julius Caesar (1990)
A production of William Shakespeare's play about Julius Caesar, "the noblest Roman of them all".
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Julius Caesar (1995)
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Julius Caesar (1999)
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | King Lear
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Macbeth (1992)
The Sunday Play | Macbeth (1992)
A production of Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Macbeth (2000)
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Measure for Measure
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Much Ado About Nothing
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Othello
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Richard III
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Romeo and Juliet (1993)
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 ...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Romeo and Juliet (1999)
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 ...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
Sunday Play | Twelfth Night
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | The Taming of the Shrew
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | The Tempest
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.
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Twelfth Night (1993)
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/Shakespeare-Archive-Thumbnail-V5.png)
The Sunday Play | Twelfth Night (1998)
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...
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/words-and-music-400x230.jpg)
Words and Music | The Chessboard
Adjoa Andoh and Henry Goodman read extracts from Han Kang's The White Book, Shakespeare's Othello, Philip Larkin's Sympathy in White Major and the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam.
![](https://era.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/10/drama-on-3-400x230.jpg)
Drama on 3 | Othello (2008)
The Donmar Warehouse production of Othello, directed by Michael Grandage, with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role and Ewan McGregor as lago. Ejiofor received particular acclaim for his portrayal of a leader consumed by jealousy, winning Best Actor in the Olivier Awards and Critic's Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance.