Audio: Comedy
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Shakespeare’s First Acts: Much Ado About Nothing
14th October 2012
SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST ACTS: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Iqbal Khan tells Sophie Reynolds about his Indian-inspired production for the RSC, currently playin...
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Shakespeare’s First Acts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
29th May 2012
SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST ACTS: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Sean Holmes, artistic director of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, discusses the first act of the p...
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Playwright April De Angelis on sex, sense and feminist comedy
2nd November 2011
INTERVIEW: APRIL DE ANGELIS The playwright talks to Carole Woddis about her new play, Jumpy (Royal Court), which is a hilarious comedy about the relat...
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Playwright Steve Thompson gets a laugh out of Monty Python
20th September 2011
INTERVIEW: STEVE THOMPSON The playwright chats to Aleks Sierz about his latest comedy, No Naughty Bits (Hampstead Theatre), which tells the story of t...
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Co-creator of Yes, Prime Minister Jonathan Lynn explores comedy
7th August 2011
INTERVIEW: JONATHAN LYNN The actor, director and co-writer, with Antony Jay, of the hit West End comedy show, Yes, Prime Minister (Apollo) - an update...
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Controversial playwright Richard Bean: full career overview
18th May 2011
INTERVIEW: RICHARD BEAN The playwright tells Philip Fisher about his latest, One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre), an adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's...
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Matthew Kelly talks about his acting career
22nd March 2011
INTERVIEW: MATTHEW KELLY Heather Neill pops backstage at the Duchess Theatre to talk to the erstwhile TV presenter, best-known for Stars in Their Eyes...
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Actor, writer and comedian Meera Syal interviewed
30th October 2010
ASIAN VOICES: MEERA SYAL The actor, writer and comedian talks to Suman Bhuchar about her role in Willy Russell's 1986 classic Shirley Valentine (Trafa...
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Actor Kulvinder Ghir on his career in comedy
23rd October 2009
ASIAN VOICES: KULVINDER GHIR The actor talks to Suman Bhuchar about his current role in Trevor Griffiths's Comedians (Lyric, Hammersmith) and about hi...
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