Free Thinking | Shakespeare’s Bookshelf

Free Thinking | Antony Sher

Philip Dodd is in extended conversation with actor Antony Sher, whose recent roles include Falstaff.

Free Thinking | Galatea and Shakespeare

Shadhidha Bari is joined by theatre director Emma Frankland and academics Emma Whipday, Andy Kesson and Will Tosh to talk about links...

Free Thinking | Lady Macbeth

Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuler, Michelle Assay and New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday discuss characters in Shakespeare's Sc...

Free Thinking | Macbeth and Things Fall Apart

Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo on his novel based on Macbeth and playwright Mark Ravenhill on why the play doesn't work onstag...

Free Thinking | Macbeth on Film

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro on 1606, Matthew Sweet, Sonia Massai and Andrew Hilton on the new Macbeth film, and Barrie Keeffe on a revi...

Free Thinking | Peter Brook

Matthew Sweet talks to the late theatre director Peter Brook, in an edition from 2013, reflecting on Brook's groundbreaking Shakespeare productions.

Free Thinking | Shakespeare and India

Preti Taneja explores Indian translations of Shakespeare and asks what a decision to write in Hindi or English tells us about the polit...

Free Thinking | Shakespeare as inspiration

Matthew Sweet is joined by Preti Taneja, Iain Smith and Andrew Dickson to discuss films, art and literature across the centuries, ...

Free Thinking | Shakespeare in cartoons

With MP Jess Phillips talking about life in the public eye and curator Rebecca Daniels on Sidney Nolan's paintings of Australian hist...

Free Thinking | Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer

Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse, the real Cleopatra examined by New Generation Thinker Islam Issa a...

Free Thinking | Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound

RSC director Owen Horsley and researchers Andrea Smith, Derek Dunne and Ellie Chan join Shahidha Bari to ...

Free Thinking | Shakespeare's Bookshelf

Rana Mitter is joined by Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves to explore the books which inspired Shakespeare from the Bible a...

Free Thinking | Shakespeare's life lessons

What does Shakespeare teach us about the ethics of war, about friendships or domestic violence and the power dynamics in a home?

Free Thinking | Simon Russell Beale; Derek Jarman

Actor Simon Russell Beale discusses playing the role of King Lear.

Free Thinking | Sounds of Shakespeare - The Winters Tale

Matthew Sweet discusses Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale with actor Samuel West and scholars Michael Dobson and ...

Free Thinking | Tudor Families

Henry VIII from a female perspective is on offer at the Globe Theatre this summer in a new adaptation of the play written by Shakespeare and J...

Free Thinking | What does Global Shakespeare Mean?

Philip Dodd is joined by academic Preti Taneja, Professor David Schalkwyk, director Dominic Dromgoole and Professor Sonia ...