fellow actors seven years after his death. it includes 18 plays that had never been printed before. plays like 12th night. what kind of man is he? ..the tempest. our revels now are ended. ..julius caesar. friends, romans, countrymen. ..and macbeth. stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more. these plays would all have been lost had it not been for the first folio. do you want me to do a clap? i am the bbc s culture editor, katie razzall, and i caught up with david during his rehearsals for macbeth and asked him about the role shakespeare s first folio has played in his life. the reason that shakespeare is the cultural colossus that he is is because that book was published. you know why we re here. it is 400 years since the first folio and i wondered, as somebody steeped in shakespeare like you, what does the first folio mean to you? well, i mean, it contains so many of the plays that are the reason why shakespeare is the cornerstone of our cultural life in the way that he is.
was 400 years old this year. to celebrate, the king and queen played host to an original copy and theatre s royalty, many of whom can thank the folio for their most memorable roles. chatter will these hands ne er be clean? the collection of plays was put together by two of shakespeare s fellow actors seven years after his death. it includes 18 plays that had never been printed before. plays like 12th night. what kind of man is he? ..the tempest. our revels now are ended. ..julius caesar. friends, romans, countrymen. ..and macbeth. stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more. these plays would all have been lost had it not been for the first folio. do you want me to do a clap? i am the bbc s culture editor, katie razzall, and i caught up with david during his rehearsals for macbeth and asked him about the role shakespeare s first folio has played in his life. the reason that shakespeare is the cultural colossus that he is is because that book was published. you know why we re h
what does the first folio mean to you? well, i mean, it contains so many of the plays. ..that are the reason why shakespeare is the cornerstone of our cultural life in the way that he is. he simply wouldn t exist. ..as part of the kind of national conversation in the way that he does without the first folio. those. we would have lost so many of those plays. you know, i m sitting here at the end of my first day of rehearsals for macbeth, a play that s been in performance now for over 400 years. but it wouldn t exist. we wouldn t have a copy of it. and even those that we did have, that we do have other sources for, the folio was the kind of.the prestige edition. and the reason that those plays are still performed around the world, the reason that shakespeare is the cultural colossus that he is, is because that book was published. great glamis. ..worthy cawdor. greater than both, by the all hail hereafter. let s take just macbeth. what would it have meant if macbeth, we d never
everybody went to the movies and everyone cared. that is no longer true. people are very comfortable now being outspoken about the sexism, the inequality that women have suffered through for decades. tonight, we frigging broke that glass ceiling! audience cheers. smooth jazz music. hello from los angeles. i m tom brook, and welcome to talking movies. in today s programme, in the wake of the academy awards, we look back at the changing face of hollywood, the efforts that are being made to bring about greater diversity and inclusion. muffled speech through loudspeaker. with the oscars now over, the film industry is reflecting on how it all went. the first academy award ceremony took place in this landmark hollywood hotel in 1929. 95 years on, the oscars is facing challenges. prickly orchestral score. wings was the very first movie to win an academy award for best picture. a silent film, a story involving world war i combat pilots in love with the same woman. the oscars ceremony
So i feel very, i love being onstage. I love being in a live environment. I havent been onstage, actually, for a couple of years now, five years, probably. But im looking forward to going back and doing some more because it is, its live and you have a control over the performance, which you dont on screen. Is it true, that thing people always say about how you feel the audience when youre onstage . You can feel whether theyre paying attention or slightly looking at their watches, thinking, am i going to make the last train home . Yeah. You can . Totally. The last play i did was a beautiful play by Bill Nicholson called shadowlands, which is a movie with debra winger and tony hopkins about cs lewis and his late flowering love. And its shot through with great wit and humour about this very closed off man who finds love late in life, and then she dies. And its really a story about the question that he asks at the beginning of the play is, if god is love, why does he allow suffering . And