{"id":4239,"date":"2025-10-26T09:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/when-king-charles-performed-the-best-hamlet-gregory-doran-remembers-shakespeare-live-bbc\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:29:20","slug":"when-king-charles-performed-the-best-hamlet-gregory-doran-remembers-shakespeare-live-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/when-king-charles-performed-the-best-hamlet-gregory-doran-remembers-shakespeare-live-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"When King Charles performed the best Hamlet | Gregory Doran Remembers&#8230; Shakespeare Live! &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/23hZQiMoB7A?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8220;To be or not to be&#8230; that is the QUESTION?&#8221; #GregorDoranRemembers #ShakespeareLive #RSC #iPlayer #BBCArts #BBCShakespeare<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe and \ud83d\udd14 to the BBC \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bit.ly\/BBCYouTubeSub<br \/>\nWatch the BBC first on iPlayer \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bbc.in\/iPlayer-Home<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Doran, former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, looks back on the challenges he faced bringing together a cast of acclaimed actors and even members of the royal family for his 2016 live BBC extravaganza marking 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare. <\/p>\n<p>Gregory explains how he managed to pull off the project and recalls the journey that transformed early ideas into to a huge popular success that resonated with critics and television viewers alike. He also shares his memories of working with the likes of David Tennant, Catherine Tate and a host of acclaimed Shakespeareans, and explains why he thinks the Bard remains so relevant even today.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=23hZQiMoB7A\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To be or not to be&#8230; that is the QUESTION?&#8221; #GregorDoranRemembers #ShakespeareLive #RSC #iPlayer #BBCArts #BBCShakespeare Subscribe and \ud83d\udd14 to the BBC \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bit.ly\/BBCYouTubeSub Watch the BBC first on iPlayer \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bbc.in\/iPlayer-Home Gregory Doran, former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, looks back on the challenges he faced bringing together a cast of acclaimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":4240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3954,60,586,587,693,8733,8731,8734,4568,3586,8732,585,589,590,588],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","tag-bbc-arts","tag-bbc-iplayer","tag-british-tv","tag-british-tv-shows","tag-david-tennant","tag-gregory-doran","tag-hamlet","tag-judi-dench","tag-shakespeare","tag-theatre","tag-to-be-or-not-to-be","tag-united-kingdom","tag-watch-british-tv-online","tag-watch-british-tv-shows-online","tag-watch-uk-tv-online","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}