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BBC offers extensive Shakespeare archive to UK schools and universities

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Almost 1,000 Shakespeare productions, TV shows and interviews are to be made available for free to schools and universities across the UK thanks to the BBC and their new collaboration with the Educational Recording Agency (ERA).
Paapa Essiudu as Hamlet (RSC 2016), available on the ERA website
Paapa Essiudu as Hamlet (RSC 2016), available on the ERA website - © Manuel Harlan

The Shakespeare footage is available to all schools, colleges and universities that hold a licence with the ERA; this replaces the BBC Shakespeare Resource on the BBC website, giving the archive a fresh new home. 

The featured footage stretches to TV programmes, radio shows, interviews and productions spanning more than 70 years. Highlights include 37 classic productions in the BBC Television Shakespeare series, The Hollow Crown and Russel T Davies' production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Peter Rippon, executive editor of BBC Archive, said: ‘The BBC’s Shakespeare collection offers a fabulous insight into how interpretations and performances have evolved. It also gives us a glimpse of early performances by some of today’s most famous actors.’

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