Great Lives | William Shakespeare
TV producer and poetry anthologist Daisy Goodwin chooses the life of William Shakespeare as her great life to discuss. Also taking part are Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre and Matthew Parris who presents and moves the conversation along.
TweetFront Row | Women and Shakespeare
And on Shakespeare's birthday, we discuss the women who made him as well as his female contemporaries with Charlotte Scott, from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Rami Targoff author of Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance.
In Our Time | Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great comedies of world literature in which love and desire in Illyria sit uneasily alongside thwarted dreams and compromise.