Podcasts about Timberlake Wertenbaker

Artistic Director Stella Powell-Jones brings Little Brother: A Refugee's Odyssey to life on Today's Culture Tuesday.Adapted by celebrated playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, Little Brother is a powerful retelling of the true story of Ibrahima Balde from Guinea, who risks everything to find his runaway younger brother on the dangerous migrant routes toward Europe. Based on the award-winning memoir by Ibrahima Balde and Amets Arzallus Antia, the play explores the harrowing realities faced by refugees — a crisis that Pope Francis has repeatedly highlighted as a human, not political, tragedy. Through Ibrahima's journey and his heartfelt closing poem, audiences are invited to witness the plight of migrants with compassion and urgency, bearing witness to both the suffering and the hope found along the way.

Naarah (pronounced Nay-ah-rah), is originally from Australia and has been working in the industry down under for several years across multiple platforms. Those include, musical theatre, songwriting, content creation and hosting the National Radio Show “The Musical Show” on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Co-operation).She was also Young Australian of the Year for 2024. After a few years in Australia she moved to London to attend the prestigious Royal Academy of Music. During that time she appeared in the recent Lyric Hammersmith production of “Our Country's Good” by Timberlake Wertenbaker. A play that looked the mass exile of prisoners to Australia in the 1780s and the impact it had on its cultural landscape. Widely considered one of the greatest plays of our time. She was praised for her voice giving “weight to the story and an insight from the Earth, land, water, air and the Indigenous communities. Her voice, soft and lyrical, is a welcome relief when she wafts on stage to share an entirely different language and truth” (review by Nilgün Yusuf). As well as this she has appeared in:We Will Rock YouInto the WoodsCome From AwayRocky Horror Picture ShowDeadloch - Amazon PrimeThe Sunshine Club among many more!We discuss her time at the Royal Academy of Music, moving to London, the impact of “Our Country's Good” and our mutual love of Australia!Oliver GowerSpotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261Instagram: @goweroliverFor enquiries and requests: olliegower10@gmail.comPlease Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️

Ibrahima Balderen eta Amets Arzallusen Miñan liburua izen bereko antzezlana egokitu eta muntatu du Artedrama konpaniak.   Liburua hainbat hizkuntzatan itzulia izan da, besteak beste, ingeleses,Timberlake Wertenbaker idazleak itzulitakoa. Nahiko naturala izan da Artedrama konpaniak Timberlakaren gana joatea antzerkirako egokitzeko.   Bere lana azaltzeaz gain, zer harreman duen Euskal Herria eta euskararekin azaltzen digu Timberlake-k.   Jatorria : Radiokultura

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The Aside Podcasts are a free resource supported by Drama Victoria - Australia's oldest Drama Association In this episode of The Aside, we translate a number of words from Liz Morden's Monologue from Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Links below for the sources. Please feel free to email asidepodcast@outlook.com to ask a question. We will try and answer on a future podcast. Sources: https://www.hamptonhilltheatre.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-07/Programme%20-%20Our%20Country%27s%20Good_0.pdf https://www.mansioningles.com/recursos149.htm https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/convict-sydney/flash-language https://sites.google.com/site/motman/Home/information/slang https://writinginmargins.weebly.com/home/nymphidia-and-the-fairies-of-michael-drayton#:~:text=Katharine%20Briggs%20suggested%20in%20An,hang%20for%20a%20halfpenny.%22 https://sites.google.com/site/motman/Home/information/slang https://www.definition-of.com/mother+of+all+saints List of words: Shifts it's bob – moves out of the way A bob can be the weight attached to a plumb line. A ship is said to bob out when it bounces and bobs in heavy seas without making any remarkable headway. This is a particularly distressing occurrence for those afflicted with seasickness. Waves bobble when they seem to crash without any specific set or direction as during cross currents or riptides. Born under a Ha'penny planet - halfpenny = worthless, planet – circumstances of births Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession. Nibbler -nibbler a pilferer or petty thief Crapped - crap'd - hanged Titter – girl, young girl, toddler girl, small laugh of a child, women's breast Wiper – Handkerchief Shoulder-clapped – arrested Cudgel – short thick stick/weapon Prig – a thief, or stolen, to steal or pilfer Trine for a maker – wait for a Wap for a winnie – pull for a horse If she will not lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny Dimber mort -pretty girl Swell – elegantly dressed, or stylishly dressed mollisher – a woman, a villian's mistress Miss Laycock – female genitals, prostitute Mug – face Sell my Mother of saints – female genitals Swell cove – “swell” man. Bobcull – good natured man Mossie face - a slang, potentially endearing term for the pudendal region of a woman Shiners - money Spice (steal) the swells – steal from the gentlemen (steal the loot) Lifts it – steal it /take it Stir my stumps – move my legs Swell Squeals beef – gentleman shouts ”thief” Snoozie – constable for the night watch Nibbed – caught / arrested Up the ladder to rest – walk up the ladder/stairs to be hanged. Nap – get/receive Across the herrring pond – across the coean Rantum scantum – sex (for food/water or preferential treatment on the ship – which was common) Nob it here - become A person of wealth or high social position (short for noble) Bobcull gov – good natured government person Niffynaffy - easy Rufflers – vagabonds/vagrant Nibbed – arrested again Up the ladder to rest – up the ladder/stairs to be hanged to death

Na velikem odru Mestnega gledališča ljubljanskega so uprizorili zadnjo premiero sezone – Junakinje v režiji Aleksandra Popovskega. Nastanek besedila je povezan s pandemijo – v londonskem gledališču Jermyn Street so leta 2020 povabili 15 britanskih avtoric, naj za spletne nastope petnajstih igralk napišejo monološka besedila po motivih Ovidovih Heroid. V Mestnem gledališču so jih izbrali 9, prevedla jih je Alenka Klabus Vesel. Dodatno besedilo moškega lika je napisal Nejc Gazvoda. Lettie Precious, Sabrina Mahfouz, Hannah Khalil, Stella Duffy, Isley Lynn, Chinonyerem Odimba, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Samantha Ellis, Juliet Gilkes Romero, Nejc Gazvoda 15 Heroines, 2021 Prva slovenska uprizoritev Premiera: 12. maj 2022 Prevajalka Alenka Klabus Vesel Režiser in scenograf Aleksandar Popovski Dramaturginja Eva Mahkovic Kostumografka Mia Popovska Avtor glasbe Kiril Džajkovski Lektorica Barbara Rogelj Svetovalka za gib Anja Möderndorfer Asistent scenografa Janez Koleša Asistentka dramaturginje in režiserja Urša Majcen Oblikovalec svetlobe Andrej Koležnik Oblikovalec zvoka Sašo Dragaš Nastopajo Viktorija Bencik Emeršič, Ajda Smrekar, Judita Zidar, Tanja Ribič, Tina Potočnik Vrhovnik, Julita Kropec k.g., Mirjam Korbar, Tjaša Železnik, Veronika Železnik k.g., Jernej Gašperin Foto: Veronika Železnik, Tjaša Železnik, Mirjam Korbar, Julita Kropec, Tina Potočnik Vrhovnik, Tanja Ribič, Judita Zidar, Ajda Smrekar, Viktorija Bencik Emeršič Avtor fotografije je Peter Giodani https://www.mgl.si/sl/predstave/junakinje/#gallery-1321-1 Besedilo sodobnih britanskih avtoric po motivih Ovidovih Heroid je režiral Aleksandar PopovskiNa velikem odru Mestnega gledališča ljubljanskega so uprizorili zadnjo premiero sezone – Junakinje v režiji Aleksandra Popovskega. Nastanek besedila je povezan s pandemijo – v londonskem gledališču Jermyn Street so leta 2020 povabili 15 britanskih avtoric, naj za spletne nastope petnajstih igralk napišejo monološka besedila po motivih Ovidovih Heroid. V Mestnem gledališču so jih izbrali 9, prevedla jih je Alenka Klabus Vesel. Dodatno besedilo moškega lika je napisal Nejc Gazvoda. Lettie Precious, Sabrina Mahfouz, Hannah Khalil, Stella Duffy, Isley Lynn, Chinonyerem Odimba, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Samantha Ellis, Juliet Gilkes Romero, Nejc Gazvoda 15 Heroines, 2021 Prva slovenska uprizoritev Premiera: 12. maj 2022 Prevajalka Alenka Klabus Vesel Režiser in scenograf Aleksandar Popovski Dramaturginja Eva Mahkovic Kostumografka Mia Popovska Avtor glasbe Kiril Džajkovski Lektorica Barbara Rogelj Svetovalka za gib Anja Möderndorfer Asistent scenografa Janez Koleša Asistentka dramaturginje in režiserja Urša Majcen Oblikovalec svetlobe Andrej Koležnik Oblikovalec zvoka Sašo Dragaš Nastopajo Viktorija Bencik Emeršič, Ajda Smrekar, Judita Zidar, Tanja Ribič, Tina Potočnik Vrhovnik, Julita Kropec k.g., Mirjam Korbar, Tjaša Železnik, Veronika Železnik k.g., Jernej Gašperin Foto: Veronika Železnik, Tjaša Železnik, Mirjam Korbar, Julita Kropec, Tina Potočnik Vrhovnik, Tanja Ribič, Judita Zidar, Ajda Smrekar, Viktorija Bencik Emeršič Avtor fotografije je Peter Giodani

Stratford East has commissioned 6 writers to create urgent, political short plays in a new series called BURN IT DOWN. We'll be interviewing the 12 writers and directors in the series. In this episode, we spoke to Timberlake Wertenbaker and Anthony Lau about their play The Expendables.

Pages 178 - 185 │Aeolus, part V│Read by Cressida BrownCress was awarded the National Theatre Studio's Bulldog prinsep bursary in 2007. She directed Macbeth for Shakespeare and Company in 2017.Work she is most proud of includes :Amphibians by Steve Water, inspired by interviews she conducted with former Olympic swimmers about ‘legacy' in the run up to the 2012 Olympic games and staged in the derelict pool that had previously been hidden under the Bridewell Theatre stage. Walking the Tightrope: the tension between art and politics by writers including Caryl Churchill, April DeAngelis, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Mark Ravenhill about boycott and censorship, staged site-specifically in the old Guardian newspaper offices before transferring to the House of Commons and then the Underbelly. The Political History of Smack and Crack about the 1981 Moss Side riots and the heroin epidemic that then ensued under Thatcher. (Paines Plough Roundabout, Soho Theatre, UK tour of major venues and some prisons)Drawing Play a play where the audience turned up to an art masterclass armed with drawing boards and pens. They drew as well as watched, their pictures influencing the action played out before them (Yard Theatre)Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine, where the foyer was magically transformed into a playground for the final scene (unicorn theatre)www.cressidabrown.com*Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 035: Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker Host: Douglas Schatz Guest: Matt Beresford The Play Podcast is a podcast dedicated to exploring the greatest new and classic plays. In each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We discuss the play's origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing. It is 1789 and a group of convicts in the newly-founded colony of Botany Bay in Australia are assembled to put on a production of George Farquhar's Restoration Comedy The Recruiting Officer. The true story of this unlikely theatrical enterprise is the subject of Timberlake Wertenbaker's award-winning play, Our Country's Good, which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1988 almost exactly 200 years after the events it portrays. The play is a vivid portrait of the volatile new settlement in New South Wales, which raises timeless questions about what makes for a country's good: the exercise of justice, the iniquities of class, the value of education and culture, and particularly of the redemptive power of theatre itself. It made complete logical sense to follow our last episode on The Recruiting Officer with this wonderful play, and even more sense to invite Director Matt Beresford back to talk us through it.

The nerds are honored to have with them for this mini-series an esteemed guest, Rafeal Clements, who was present at Yale Rep during the development of mulitple Wilson plays. RAFEAL CLEMENTS has worked as an actor, teacher, and director since 1985 - performing the works of playwrights as varied as William Shakespeare, Tony Kushner, Caryl Churchill, Lynn Nottage, Bertolt Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Anton Chekov, Kia Cothron, Romulus Linney, Timberlake Wertenbaker, and Michael Henry Brown.  Rafeal has performed regionally with Houston's Alley Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Indiana Repertory Theater, Portland Stage Company, Berkshire Theater Festival, Playmakers Repertory Company, The Clarence Brown Company, Playhouse on the Green, and the Carpetbag Theater. New York Theater credits include stints with the Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, New Federal Theater, Target Margin, Circle Rep Company, HERE, Prospect Theater Company, The Hotel Savant, Ensemble Studio Theater East, and The Lark Play Development Center. Los Angeles Theater includes time with Sacred Fools, Company of Angels, City Garage, and Independent Shakespeare Company. Film and TV credits include roles on “Law and Order”, "As the World Turns”, “Another World”, “New York News”, “Bandwagon”, “Fireflies”, and “The Heartland Series.” . Rafeal has taught acting, scene study, voice, and speech on the high-school level and in acting schools. He currently has spent the past 15 years working with a public charity that provides healthcare to low-income communities in Los Angeles. Rafeal is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and Yale School of Drama. On PART 1 we cover: Introduce Rafeal Clements Context MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM Film vs Play SUBSCRIBE. RATE. REVIEW!! SCENE: The Piano Lesson - performed by Rafeal Clements as Boy Willie THEME and Stingers: Ryan Thomas Johnson Original Song: Pamela Quinn IG: @theatre_theater_pod Twitter: @the_theatre_pod Gmail: theatretheaterpod@gmail.com tiktok: @theatre_of_the_absurd Resources below BLM Donation and Education LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/NationalResourcesList Black Owned Businesses in LA: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18w-0RBhwBBlXDN9kRV9DVSCAGSCjtHb9K0Pq2YBv18U/htmlview?usp=sharing&pru=AAABcpXptV0*XfoiE2Ay5SJUCEO3tXROGQ&urp=gmail_link MPJI https://marshap.org/ Petitions https://linktr.ee/petitions_123 https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylor https://www.change.org/p/adams-county-district-attorney-justice-for-elijah-mcclain-48a81830-f891-4b04-ba28-c2625b916b96 Update Description (https://audioboom.com/posts/7781037-sam-shepard-part-2/edit)

At what might be the half-way point and more opinionated than usual, Charles Adrian talks about three books he was given by friends in Athens.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   You can find out more about the Jacques Lecoq school in Paris on their homepage here: http://www.ecole-jacqueslecoq.com/en   There is a nice introduction to Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker on the British Library website here: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-our-countrys-good   Correction: the last quadrant of Charles Adrian’s summary of Pascal’s Wager (at 18:22) should read: “If I don’t believe in God and God doesn’t exist…”   The discussion of Pascal’s Wager in this episode is, in any case, a little superficial. You can find a better summary on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager and a more extended analysis in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/   Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet is discussed in Page One 55.   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 79 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/79-alison-windsor/), Page One 80 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/80-erifili-stefanidou/) and Page One 81 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/81-vicky-sachpazi/).   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 27th July, 2020     Book listing:   The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally (Page One 79) Oscar Et La Dame Rose by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (Page One 80) Selected Poems by C. P. Cavafy (trans. David Connolly) (Page One 81)

Our Amplify Producer, Craig Gilbert, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown. Â These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing.Nikolai was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, grew up in North Yorkshire and trained at Drama Centre London and at the Crucible, Sheffield.His work has been seen in many of the UK’s leading regional theatres, touring houses and internationally. Nikolai has been director on attachment at the Sheffield Crucible, the Royal Court Theatre and National Theatre Studio and served as an Associate Director at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds.Nikolai is currently the Artistic Director of Leicester Curve where he has directed Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, the world-premiere of Dougal Irvine’s adaptation of Riaz Khan’s Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual, nominated for Best Regional Production at the WhatsOnStage Awards 2019, An Officer and a Gentleman – the Musical (& UK tour), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard (& UK tour), Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw(with Theatre Royal Bath), Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey’s Grease (& Dubai World Trade Centre), Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (with Birmingham Rep), the Broadway musical Spring Awakening (with NYMT), Legally Blonde (Opera Garnier, Monaco & Daegu Opera Festival, South Korea – Winner Best Musical – Daegu International Musical Festival Awards), Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s (& Haymarket Theatre, London & UK tour), Roald Dahl’s The Witches(with Rose Theatre Kingston, Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds & UK tour), Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Shakespeare’s Richard III, Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good and a performance to celebrate the reveal of the tomb of King Richard III at Leicester Cathedral.https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/support/curtain-up-appeal/

The Aside Podcasts are a free resource supported by Drama Victoria - Australia's oldest Drama Association This is a Script Tease episode where we talk through some of the world's greatest plays. Jump through the major plot points, give some background and of course, spoil the endings – all in less than 5 minutes. We do the hard work so you can do the easy listening. In this episode we do Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker Please feel free to email asidepodcast@outlook.com to ask a question. We will try answer on a future podcast.

Enhance your appreciation of American Players Theatre's 2018 production of Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker with this enlightening conversation with director Ameenah Kaplan and actorNate Burger.  Listen on your way to or from the theater to gain insight into the play and the artistic decisions that make the APT production special.

The plays of Timberlake Wertenbaker have been a presence in British theatre since the turn of the 1980s. Since that time she has produced work that is as defined by its sense of poetry and linguistic precision as it is by her characters’ yearning for justice or a sense of a home.

Conn Iggulden is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction, writing about the Wars of the Roses, Genghis Khan and Julius Caesar; as well as his hugely popular manual Dangerous Book for Boys. He now turns to St Dunstan, who was Archbishop of Canterbury and lived through the reigns of seven kings in the tenth century. Conn talks to Samira about how Dunstan became a saint, and his legacy. Royal drama The Crown was made by Netflix when they outbid the BBC for the rights. The £100m series was expected to pick up the top awards at the BAFTAs after it led the shortlist with five nominations. But on the night, it missed out entirely. TV writer Andrew Collins discusses what the fate of The Crown reveals about the BAFTAs. Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker has won many awards for her stage plays Our Country's Good, Three Birds Alighting on A Field, and most recently Jefferson's Garden; as well as praise for her radio adaptations of War and Peace and Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet. Her new play, premiering at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton, looks at a group of women attempting to block the development of a big hotel on Winter Hill. Front Row spoke to Timberlake on the hill outside Bolton that inspired the drama. Quake is Radio 4's experimental new drama set after a deadly earthquake. As well as the audio drama, there is a virtual reality video to accompany the first episode and graphic novel style animations for the remaining eleven. Quake is also non-linear so apart for the first and last, the episodes can be listened to in any order. Critic Pete Naughton reviews. Presenter : Samira Ahmed Producer : Dymphna Flynn.

Timberlake Wertenbaker was commissioned by the Octagon Theatre in Bolton to write Winter Hill, named after a local landmark most famous for its TV mast. BTG editor David Chadderton spoke to Timberlake when she had spent nearly a week in rehearsals for the play in Bolton, and then a couple of weeks later to three of the cast: Cathy Tyson, Souad Faress and Janet Henfry. Winter Hill by Timberlake Wertenbaker will be at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton from 11 May to 3 June 2017. (Photo of the Winter Hill cast in rehearsal by Ray Jefferson, Bolton Camera Club)

Timberlake Wertenbaker is one of our leading playwrights, adapters and translators. Her parents were American, but she was brought up in Basque country in France and has spent much of her life in Greece. Not surprising, then, that her major theme is exile, displacement, flight. She's best known for her play about convicts in 18th century Australia, "Our Country's Good", which was first staged in the late 1980s and which was revived recently at the National Theatre. It has become a set text in schools, and in fact Wertenbaker's own daughter had to study it (refusing all help from her playwright mother). Timberlake Wertenbaker is well known to Radio 4 listeners as the adapter of the recent "War and Peace"; and her new work is a dramatization of "My Brilliant Friend" by the cult Italian writer Elena Ferrante, which will be broadcast as the Classic Serial on 31 July. In Private Passions, Timberlake Wertenbaker talks about her childhood in Basque country, and how that sense of being part of a political minority has influenced her life. She chooses music by Ravel which was inspired by a Basque dance, and a protest song by the Basque musician Mikel Leboa. She talks about the moving experience of seeing her work performed in prisons and chooses the prisoners' chorus from "Fidelio". And she reflects on how little has changed in the theatre since she began writing in terms of how few women playwrights ever get their work on stage. With Schubert, Beethoven, Nina Simone, Ravel, Leboa, and a moving work by the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. Produced by Elizabeth Burke A Loftus Production for BBC Radio 3.

Dominic West and Janet McTeer star in the first major London production for 30 years of Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Star Wars is back. Unless you've been living in cave, it's been hard to avoid. But is it any good? Last year WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio created the astoundingly successful Serial podcast and now there's a new series unravelling the peculiar story of American soldier Bowe Bergdahl Dickensian is Tony "Eastenders" Jordan's mash-up of several Charles Dickens stories and characters. How well does this TV series capture the spirit of the originals? Penguin publishing is putting out a series of 45 small books, each of which tells the story of a different British monarch. Tom Sutcliffe is joined for the final edition of Saturday Review for 2015 by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Rosie Goldsmith and Patrick Gale. The producer is Oliver Jones.

On Start the Week the classicist Mary Beard tells Tom Sutcliffe that Ancient Rome matters: its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty. The Magna Carta is the starting point for the playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker's latest play which draws parallels between the King's abuse of power in 1215 and the global business elite today. The film director Stephen Frears tells the story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial sportsmen in recent history, Lance Armstrong, and of the journalist who was vilified when he tried to expose him. Lurid headlines take centre stage in the play Clarion, directed by Mehmet Ergen, which takes a satirical look at nationalism and the state of the British media. Producer: Katy Hickman.

Director Nadia Fall and playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker discuss the new production of Our Country's Good. This is a recording of a live platform event. http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/our-countrys-good #OurCountrysGood

Director Nadia Fall and playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker discuss the new production of Our Country's Good. This is a recording of a live platform event. http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/our-countrys-good #OurCountrysGood

Joyce Carol Oates new novel The Sacrifice depicts an act of racial violence which shocks a New Jersey town. Selma dramatises on film the life of Martin Luther King. Timberlake Wertenbaker's new play Jefferson's Garden puts on stage the founding of the American state. Anne McElvoy talks to Joyce Carol Oates and Timberlake Wertenbaker and is also joined by New Generation Thinker Joanna Cohen who studies American history and by Professor Kit Davis from SOAS.

This week Libby Purves is joined by Professor Nicky Clayton, Bill Roedy, Edward Petherbridge and Steve Greenhaugh. Nicky Clayton is Professor of Comparative Cognition at Cambridge University and is an expert in bird behaviour. She is also passionate about dance and now combines these two strands as the Rambert Dance Company's first 'Scientist in Residence'. She is working with the Rambert on a new production, "Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told" and will be at this year's Hay Festival. Bill Roedy is the former Chairman and Chief Executive of MTV. In his book, 'What Makes Business Rock', he tells the story of how he built MTV into a global phenomenon. 'What Makes Business Rock' is published by Wiley. Edward Petherbridge is a distinguished stage actor who has had a long and varied career. He was part of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company at the Old Vic and starred as Lord Peter Wimsey in the BBC adaptation of the Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries. He is currently playing the prophet Teresias in Sophocles' 'Antigone' (translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker) at London's Southwark Playhouse. Steve Greenhaugh worked as an RSPCA inspector in Lancashire for twenty-eight years. His book ' A Seal Pup in My Bath' tells of his training and early career rescuing thousands of injured, abandoned and abused animals from stranded cats and injured birds, to joining on police raids on quail fighting rings. 'A Seal Pup in My Bath - Tales From an RSPCA Inspector' is published by Constable.