BBC Shakespeare Archive Resource
Hannah Khalil
Digital Content Producer, About The BBC Blog
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Back in January, as part of the launch of the BBC Shakespeare Festival 2016, BBC Director General Sir Tony Hall announced a new BBC Shakespeare Archive Resource. The idea of the web portal was to offer unique access for colleges, universities and schools to hundreds of BBC television and radio broadcasts of Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets and documentaries.
That resource is now live online: http://shakespeare.ch.bbc.co.uk/ and very simple to use. Anyone in formal UK education can apply for a log in, and once they have that, they can access hundreds of TV and radio programmes from the BBC’s Shakespeare collection, for streamed playback in an educational setting, such as in a classroom, lecture theatre or for academic research, as well as more than a thousand photos from classic Shakespeare productions.
The site is very easy to navigate, and you can perform general searches - by play title, character or even actor; or browse through different categories (like 'Plays', 'Sonnets and Poems', 'Factual' and 'Entertainment'). There's also a wealth of external links and resources avialable too.
Find out more and sign up at the BBC Shakespeare Archive Resource.
