Something Understood | In the Fullness of Time & At the End of the Day
Irma Kurtz considers how clichés can be convenient truisms that keep us linked to our heritage and community, but also potentially dangerous generalisations.
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Front 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.