https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bawds-podcast-productions--4400498enArtsCopyright BAWDShttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/4afee5c7bc18e4395edfcde4f4b5f61f.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bawds-podcast-productions--4400498Sun, 31 May 2026 09:57:52 +0000BAWDSBAWDSfeeds@spreaker.comA selection of dramatisations, readings, plays and poems from Cambridge's leading amateur theatre production company, produced in lockdown from our actors homes and home studios.falseepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/summer-scenes--32239355https://api.spreaker.com/episode/32239355Mon, 25 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000BAWDSFrom our series of Seasonal Scenes, a selection of evocative readings on the subject of Summer, recorded remotely in lockdown.638bawds,brideshead,cambridge,clare,dickens,pickwick,prose,sonnet,summer,whartonfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/easter-parade--44085902https://api.spreaker.com/episode/44085902Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:18:00 +0000BAWDSPoems and prose from our locked-down actors, reflecting various aspects of Easter including from Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, AE Housman, Claude McKay and Rowena Bennett.874bawds,bennett,bonnet,bunny,cambridge,easter,easterbunny,eastre,festus,goodfriday,hardy,hotcross,housman,katusha,mckay,poems,poetry,shropshire,tolstoyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tis-the-season-to-be-merry--42586626https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42586626Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:10:00 +0000BAWDSOne of two episodes to celebrate the poetry, prose and music of Christmas. This episode takes us to Christmas day itself.644bawds,blitzen,cambridge,cratchitt,dancer,dasher,dickens,donner,ebenezer,moore,nicholas,nick,orley,prancer,rudolph,santa,scrooge,staveley,trollope,vixenfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tis-the-season-to-be-festive--42586569https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42586569Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000BAWDSOne of two episodes to celebrate the poetry, prose and music of Christmas. This episode takes us through the lead up to Christmas day.999bawds,bennett,bridges,cambridge,christmas,coleridge,duddon,ebenezer,eliot,floss,hardy,humbug,merry,midwinter,oxen,scrooge,stable,tannenbaum,wordsworth,xmasfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thoughts-on-christmas--47900605https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47900605Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:15:00 +0000BAWDSFrom plum puddings, cakes and choirs - our thoughts on Christmas from a range of different sources.1188cambridge,christmas,dickens,expectations,gosse,hardy,holly,mew,pip,pumblechook,scott,theatre,wopslefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wild-wonderful-winter--43215394https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43215394Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000BAWDSPictures of winter from a wide range of poets, read from their homes by our accomplished actors.954bawds,bronte,cambridge,clare,coolidge,drama,emmonsail,frost,greenleaf,hardy,louis,matilda,poe,poetry,prelude,stevenson,teasdale,thomas,whittier,wordsworthfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pride-and-prejudice--47457791https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47457791Sat, 24 May 2025 14:05:00 +0000BAWDSPride and Prejudice is one of Jane Austen's most loved novels. In this episode we meet the key characters in their most famous scenes, telling how Elizabeth and Darcy eventually get together.1644austen,bawds,bennett,bingley,bourgh,cambridge,collins,darcy,debourgh,janeausten,ladycatherine,longbourne,pemberley,prejudice,pride,prideandprejudicefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/aspects-of-love--29804958https://api.spreaker.com/episode/29804958Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0000BAWDSA selection of well-known and less well-known poems on Aspects of Love, performed in lockdown by our accomplished actors from their homes.1034bawds,browning,byron,cambridge,hardy,love,marlowe,meynell,poems,poetry,romance,rossetti,shakespeare,shelley,sonnet,tennyson,yeatsfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/halloween-haunts--41632590https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41632590Sun, 06 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0000BAWDSFrom Witches to Ghouls, Horror to Humour, we celebrate Halloween with a selection of extracts from well known pieces, brought to life by our experienced actors.1043baskervilles,cauldron,coleridge,conan,doyle,ghost,ghoul,hag,halloween,herrick,hood,macbeth,mariner,pendulum,pit,poe,rime,shakespearefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shakespeare-shorts-to-kill-or-not-to-kill--40137882https://api.spreaker.com/episode/40137882Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:39:00 +0000BAWDSTwo of Shakespeare's Dynamic Couples - Macbeth & Lady Macbeth, and Beatrice & Benedick - and their plots to Kill, in these dramatic extracts from 'Macbeth' and 'Much Ado About Nothing'.856ado,bawds,beatrice,benedick,cambridge,claudio,daggar,drama,hero,macbeth,muchado,murder,plays,shakespearefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shakespeare-shorts-the-tempest--27575926https://api.spreaker.com/episode/27575926Thu, 30 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000BAWDSFrom our series of 'Shakespeare Shorts' - the outline story of The Tempest by William Shakespeare, using key speeches dramatised by our accomplished Actors.896bawds,cambridge,drama,play,shakespeare,tempest,theatrefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lewis-carroll-s-nonsense--41475056https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41475056Sat, 15 Apr 2023 13:17:00 +0000BAWDSEnactments from Lewis Carroll's Nonsense poems - Jaberwocky, You Are Old Father William, and The Walrus & the Carpenter, brought to life by some of our actors.697bandersnatch,bawds,brillig,cambridge,carpenter,carroll,comedy,fatherwilliam,gimble,gyre,humour,jaberwocky,nonsense,oysters,snark,toves,vorpal,walrus,youareoldfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tales-of-old--41862094https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41862094Tue, 08 Nov 2022 17:28:00 +0000BAWDSThe Lady of Shallot, Annabel Lee, and Patterns, each tell a tale to enthral.968annabellee,bawds,cambridge,camelot,lowell,narrative,patterns,poe,shallot,stories,tales,tennysonfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/of-time-and-place--41212493https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41212493Sat, 03 Sep 2022 20:09:00 +0000BAWDSSome well-known poems from favourite writers, brought to life by our actors.1045adlestrop,arnold,autumn,bawds,brooke,cambridge,dover,gilespie,grantchester,innesfree,keats,kipling,lawrence,magee,rudyard,sea,spitfire,thomas,wordsworth,yeatesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-was-there--39849103https://api.spreaker.com/episode/39849103Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:35:00 +0000BAWDSAccounts of the Charge of the Light Brigade, Letter to Captain Scott, Discovering Tutenkhamen, and The Battle of Britain, dramatised using the actual words from those involved.1077antartic,balaclava,battleofbritain,bawds,cambridge,canarvon,carter,charge,hurricane,lightbrigade,scott,spitfire,tutenkhamen,wwiifalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shakespeare-shorts-merchant-vs-money-lender--49115945https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49115945Sat, 19 Mar 2022 12:12:56 +0000BAWDSAn extended episode to close our Spring 2022 series, enacting the story of Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice', including the signing of the life-threatening Bond, and the famous Court scene.2225antonio,balthasar,bassanio,bawds,bellario,belmont,cambridge,court,ducats,lorenzo,merchant,padua,portia,poundofflesh,salarino,shakespeare,shylock,theatre,venicefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jules-vernes-extraordinary-journeys--48640786https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48640786Tue, 08 Feb 2022 12:47:27 +0000BAWDSA selection of dramatised readings from four of Jules Verne's most popular works.104320000,20000leagues,arne,barbicane,cambridge,centreofearth,columbiad,earthtomoon,eightydays,hardwigg,julesverne,leagues,murchison,mysteriousisland,nautilus,nemo,saknussemm,squid,theatre,vernefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/restoration-romp--48373023https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48373023Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:14:46 +0000BAWDSThe acclaimed Restoration play 'The Country Wife' by Wycherley, continues our series of remote recordings. This is especially important to Bawds as it was this play that gave us our name!1480alithia,bawds,bawdy,cambridge,countrywife,cuckold,fop,harcourt,horner,lucy,moliere,quack,restoration,romp,sparkish,theatre,wycherleyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wilde-women--43879848https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43879848Sun, 14 Mar 2021 12:17:56 +0000BAWDSThis episodes focusses upon some of Oscar Wilde's strongest and most challenging women, from An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, and a review of Ellen Terry. All as usual recorded from our actors homes in lockdown.997allonby,bawds,cambridge,cheveley,goring,hunstanton,idealhusband,noimportance,oscar,stutfield,terry,theatre,wilde,womenfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/alice-s-looking-glass-wonderland--43689517https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43689517Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:52:00 +0000BAWDSTo celebrate World Book Day 2021, and the 150th Anniversary of the publication of 'Alice through the Looking Glass', our actors re-live some key moments with Alice, the Flowers, the Red Queen, the White King, the Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty .... et al....1113alice,bawds,cambridge,carroll,dumpty,haigha,humpty,lion,looking-glass,mad-hatter,red-queen,theatre,unicorn,white-king,wonderlandfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/our-childhood-favourites--43585638https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43585638Mon, 22 Feb 2021 18:03:45 +0000BAWDSOne of two episodes in celebration of World Book Day. An introduction to some of our favourites and extracts from The Secret Garden, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wind in the Willows, and The Velveteen Rabbit.781baum,bawds,burnett,cambridge,children,craven,dorothy,grahame,hodgson,literature,oz,secretgarden,skinhorse,toad,velveteen,williams,willows,wizardfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-s-all-about-the-music--43478821https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43478821Mon, 15 Feb 2021 19:04:23 +0000BAWDSMusic especially written for local theatre productions, by Mike Milne and Ian Favell.878bawds,becket,cambridge,composition,dream,emma,favell,franck,guvnors,milne,music,periclesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/humour-a-la-carte--42992061https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42992061Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:03:15 +0000BAWDSA wry look at aspects of Humour, from Al Read to Dylan Thomas, Wodehouse to Ayckbourn, John Aubrey to E B White ........691aubrey,ayckbourn,bawds,bennett,cambridge,dylan,humour,milkwood,theatre,warburton,wodehousefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-the-dickens--42393742https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42393742Wed, 09 Dec 2020 09:09:10 +0000BAWDSExtracts from Charles Dickens books Martin Chuzzlewit, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, presented by our acomplished actors from their homes in lockdown.1284bawds,bumble,cambridge,chuzzlewit,copperfield,corney,dickens,drama,gamp,mccawber,nickleby,readings,squeers,theatre,twistfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shakespeare-shorts-fairies-at-war--42145676https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42145676Tue, 24 Nov 2020 18:19:08 +0000BAWDSThe story of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream, brought to life by our accomplished actors from their homes during lockdown.1145ass,bawds,bottom,cambridge,drama,dream,fairies,fairy,midsummer,msnd,oberon,puck,shakespeare,snout,theatre,titaniafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/around-cambridge--40611280https://api.spreaker.com/episode/40611280Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:02:37 +0000BAWDSFour pieces written by writers who lived or studied at some point in Cambridge - Samuel Pepys, William Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, and Andrew Nickolds - brought to life by our seasoned actors.755bawds,cambridge,drama,nickolds,pepys,reardon,theatre,woolf,wordsworthfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/awesome-women--40385895https://api.spreaker.com/episode/40385895Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:11:07 +0000BAWDSExtracts from writings from Emily Bronte, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickenson, and Margaret Lane about Beatrix Potter, illustrating a range of interesting thoughts and ideas.585bawds,beatrix,bronte,cambridge,dickenson,potter,prose,readings,shelley,wutheringfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shakespeare-s-sonnets-18-29-109-116-130--39423118https://api.spreaker.com/episode/39423118Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:48:32 +0000BAWDSFive of Shakespeares best loved sonnets (18, 29, 109, 116, 130), read from home in lockdown by our accomplished actors.482109,116,130,18,29,iambic,love,poetry,shakespeare,sonnets,verse,weddingsfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/oscar-wilde-s-women--35956003https://api.spreaker.com/episode/35956003Sat, 04 Jul 2020 17:43:15 +0000BAWDSOur extracts from 'The Importance of Being Earnest', and 'Lady Windemer's Fan' have been chosen to bring alive the way Oscar Wilde portrayed amazing women and his profound admiration for the female sex.996algernon,bawds,bracknell,cambridge,cardew,erlynne,gwendoline,oscar,wilde,windemere,women,worthingfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-good-humour--28194337https://api.spreaker.com/episode/28194337Sun, 24 May 2020 09:56:22 +0000BAWDSA selection of humourous readings from well-known books - this time from 'Three men in a boat' from Jerome K Jerome, Barry Pain's 'Eliza', and Grossmith's '9.43'.8779.43,bawds,cambridge,comedy,eliza,grossmith,humour,jerome,pain,readingsfalsefull