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Mark Rylance - Golden Lads and Girls

Mark Rylance discovers Shakespeare’s astonishing appeal for very young children via poems to performance extracts. From 1998.

Mark Rylance discovers the astonishing appeal of Shakespeare for very young children.

Featuring their poems, letters and thoughts, as well as performance extracts.

Mark played Hamlet for the first time while he was still at school, which set him on the road to stage stardom and his acclaimed and award-winning Shakespearean roles. He was the first artistic director of the Globe Theatre in London.

Mark was created a knight bachelor in 2017’s New Year Honours for services to the theatre.

Producer: Philippa Ritchie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 21 Dec 202003:30
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Broadcasts

  • Thu 27 Apr 201706:30
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  • Thu 27 Apr 201713:30
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  • Thu 27 Apr 201720:30
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  • Fri 28 Apr 201701:30
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  • Wed 16 Dec 202014:30
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  • Thu 17 Dec 202002:30
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  • Sun 20 Dec 202015:30
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  • Mon 21 Dec 202003:30
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