A Journey Through American Music

From Clapton to The White Stripes, this episode charts how 1960s blues evolved, electrified, and transformed rock music forever.

From New Orleans to bebop, this episode traces jazz's evolution, from Armstrong and Ellington to Miles Davis's final notes.

From New Orleans to bebop, this episode traces jazz's evolution, from Armstrong and Ellington to Miles Davis's final notes.

From gospel roots to R&B grooves, this episode traces the birth of soul music through Ray Charles, Solomon Burke, and more.

From Motown to Memphis, this episode celebrates the golden age of soul with Aretha, Otis, Al Green, and more.

Laurent Pelly's expression of Berlioz's adaptation of Much Ado about Nothing as an opera comique becomes ''an elegant treatise on love and music".

An earnest young American woman, a louche English lord, and an innocent young chap join a house party of fin de siècle fools andgrotesques.

The RSC’s 2019 production of As You Like It, Shakespeare’s tale of love, lust and mistaken identity.

The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, this entertaining and still topical play brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.

A group of soldiers returns from the trenches. The worldweary Benedick and his friend Claudio find themselves reacquainted with Beatrice and Hero.

A modern opera adaptation by Charles Wuorinen based on Annie Proulx’s short story.

Globe Theatre presents William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Visual humour and sexual innuendo leap off the stage in this wonderful production.

The Globe Theatre presents William Shakespeare's As You Like It. Naomi Frederick shines as feisty Rosalind in this irresistible romantic comedy.