My reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, newly translated by the poet Simon Armitage, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 2.15pm on Thursday 21st December 2006.

Third in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series

Published: 7 September 2006

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Second in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series

Published: 7 September 2005

First broadcast Monday 25 July -Friday 29 July 2005

I read five extracts from William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem to mark the bicentenary of the 1805 version. The reading was specially recorded at Dove Cottage in Grasmere where Wordsworth lived and wrote from December 1799 to May 1808, the years of his supreme work as a poet.

First broadcast 25 February 2005 21.00

Just before he was executed for the Oklahoma bombing, Timothy McVeigh was in correspondence with the American writer and iconoclast, Gore Vidal. In this play, the award winning novelist Edmund White imagines what would have happened had they ever met face to face in Terre Haute prison.

First in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series

Publication Date: 16 September 2004

WRITER: Corigliano
ROLE: Narrator

Recorded 12 July 1996; accompanies recording of I Fiamminghi conducted by Rudolf Werthen

Recorded by BBC Manchester

First transmitted: 24 August 1970

Recorded 3 March 1970 for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6 April 1970.
 

Co-starring: Paul Daneman as Richard III, Judi Dench as Lady Anne

Recorded in studio B10, Broadcasting House, 24 June - 1 July 1967

Broadcast 24 December 1968
 

Four scenes from "St. Joan" introduced by Dame Sybil Thorndike, who acted her original role in this play which took London by storm in 1924

Starring: Sybil Thorndike (Joan), Walter Fitzgerald (Archbishop), Ian McKellen (Dauphin), Clive Morton (Baudricourt), Michael Spice (Dunois), Alan Wheatley (The Inquisitor)