Shakespeare Uncovered

Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited

Folger Shakespeare Library

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4.8 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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For three years, Shakespeare Uncovered has provided a crash course in Shakespeare’s best-known plays, presented in hour-long documentary form and guided by film and theater stars like Morgan Freeman, Kim Cattrall, Ethan Hawke, and Helen Hunt. On the third (and likely final) season of Shakespeare Uncovered, which premiered on PBS on October 12, Brian Cox and Romola Garai make timely investigations of Julius Caesar and Measure for Measure, Helen Hunt looks at the rom-com legacy of Much Ado About Nothing, and Sir Antony Sher probes Richard III's dangerous charms. The people behind the series are TV producers Richard Denton and Nicola Stockley. As the series was gearing up for its third season, the two of them came by the studio to talk about how they create these in-depth episodes and some moments from the series have really knocked their socks off. Richard and Nicola were interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. From our Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Published October 16, 2018. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, “Makes The Hour Full Complete,” was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. Ben Lauer is the web producer. We had technical help from Andrew Feliciano and Paul Luke at VoiceTrax West in Studio City, California and Gareth Wood at The Sound Company in London.

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0:00.0	Okay, granted, this won't apply to most of our listeners, but here's the scenario.
0:05.7	One day it dawns on you that pretty much everyone around you knows way more about Shakespeare than you do.
0:11.8	Hey, just go with me on this, okay? It might happen.
0:15.9	Suddenly, it seems important that you catch up quickly by learning as much as you can about Shakespeare's
0:21.5	17 most popular plays. You don't have much time. Where do you turn? From the Folger Shakespeare Library,
0:35.0	this is Shakespeare Unlimited. I'm Michael Whitmore, the Folger's director.
0:39.3	Believe it or not, there is an answer.
0:42.3	It comes in the form of a TV documentary series called Shakespeare Uncovered,
0:47.3	which airs in the United States on PBS.
0:50.3	For the past three years, the TV production team of Richard Denton and Nicholas Stockley have been turning out a crash course in Shakespeare's best-known plays, presented in hour-long documentary form, and guided by film and theater stars like Morgan Freeman, Kim Cottrell, Ethan Hawke, and Helen Hunt.
1:08.8	Nicholas Stockley and Richard Denton came into the studio recently as the series was gearing up to begin its third season.
1:15.6	We call this podcast, Makes the Hour Full Complete.
1:19.6	Richard and Nicola were interviewed by Barbara Bogave.
1:22.6	To help everyone picture what the program's like, because I'm sure some haven't seen it yet. How did you
1:29.0	describe Shakespeare uncovered the first time around when you came to networks to pitch the show?
1:35.0	I think we said it's the stories of and the stories behind the plays that Shakespeare wrote.
1:41.0	A dark, devious, dangerous character, Shakespeare's Richard III.
1:47.0	Much ado is a play about love and marriage.
1:51.0	You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady.
1:54.0	It may be a comedy, but it comes dangerously close to tragedy.
1:58.0	If you had the chance to take revenge, would you?
2:05.9	This is the choice facing one of Shakespeare's most vilified characters, Shylock.
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