Friday Night is Music Night - Shakespeare at the Movies

As part of the Radio 2 at the Movies season - this week's "Friday Night is Music Night" features music used in the films of the great Bard 's works - "Shakespeare at the Movies". Ken Bruce presents the show live from London's Mermaid Theatre close by the Thames and a stone's throw from Shakespeare's own Globe Theatre. The BBC Concert Orchestra is conducted by Richard Balcombe and their performance includes extracts from WIlliam Walton's music from "Henry V "and "Richard III"; Stephen Warbeck's score for the award winning "Shakespeare in Love"; Nino Rota's love theme from "Romeo and Juliet" ; Eric Rodgers music to "Carry on Cleo" and Otto Nicolai's "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Tonight's Friday Night singers Shona Lindsay; Tim Rogers and Jimmy Johnson invite you to "Brush Up Your Shakepeare" with a selection of songs from "Kiss Me Kate"(Cole Porter); "West Side Story" (Leonard Bernstein) and Rodgers and Hart's "The Boys from Syracuse" - based on "The Comedy of Errors".