The Sunday Play | Romeo and Juliet (1999)
Romeo and Juliet
A 1999 BBC radio adaptation of Shakespeare's best-loved play, in an updated version which sees love not as a unifying power amidst social division but as an addiction that threatens society itself. The production is set in present-day Verona.
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- Type: Plays
- Channel: BBC Radio 3
- Duration: 2'56'22''
- Broadcast date: 1999
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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