One of my local PBS stations has been showing these little "Posh Nosh" skits at the end of its British comedy block: send-ups of pretentious cooking shows, featuring Arabella Weir and Richard E. Grant. Anyway, imagine my surprise when I got to the end of this one ( Read more... )

1. Dear Simon Russell Beale: ILU.

"You know, it's rather embarrassing to admit this, but I was watching a documentary about the effect of global warming and the imminent destruction of the planet, and my first thought was: 'What will happen to Shakespeare?'"from this review/article in the Guardian ( Read more... )

I went to the bookstore today, and browsed the Shakespeare section, since I hadn't in a while. (Hey, have I mentioned how irritating and silly I think this whole "Innogen" thing is? Admittedly I have a personal bias toward the Folio version of the name, which is, oh, the version that has been bequeathed to history and all, but "because Simon Forman ( Read more... )

http://tennantnews.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-rsc-book.html

Funnily enough, I just checked out Exit Pursued by a Badger last week, but haven't had a chance to read it yet.

Also, david-tennant.com puts the Great Performances (PBS) broadcast on April 28 at 8 PM:<

A search for possible PBS air dates for David Tennant's Hamlet pulled up the following press release, about a film version of the recent production of Macbeth with Patrick Stewart ( Read more... )

LJ is still being wonky about comment notifications, woes ( Read more... )

I went on a book-trek today in the library, and actually came out with things that are potentially useful to my dissertation--imagine that! In order to get to some of those books, however, I walked past a shelf of books on ghosts and fairies and suchlike, and opened one of these books to a random page, which featured a brief description of a type ( Read more... )

Shakespeare's Sonnets audiobook, read by various actors, including David Tennant
(link from who_daily)
http://www.naxosaudiobooks.com/195612.htm

(He's the audio sample, yay!)

I'm posting this partly because of the picture accompanying the article, to be honest:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/theatreblog/2009/feb/11/david-tennant-shakespeare-hall-fame

One of the things I want to do in 2009 (not quite a resolution, but something similar) is to listen to more Shakespeare; the library has the entire Arkangel series as well as other individual recordings, which I should take more advantage of. So I started with King Lear, on the theory that at some point I'm planning to write on it, so it's not ( Read more... )