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It's almost impossible to imagine how Shakespeare's plays could ever work in silent films - with all that powerfully nuanced poetic language, conveying so many emotions. Yet, between 1899 and 1927, when the first commercial sound film was released, nearly 300 Shakespeare films were produced. Judith Buchanan, director of Silents Now and Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, celebrates this phenomenon - the muted, gesturing figures, the stop-motion magic. She is joined by: * Actor, Samuel West * Actress, Flora Spencer-Longhurst - played a silenced Lavinia in the Globe’s Titus Andronicus * Christopher Wheeldon - Choreographer, associate of the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, London * Paata Tsikurishvili - Director of Synetic Theatre in America Together they explore Shakespeare in picture and movement. A Rockethouse production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2016.