Synopsis
Might Shakespeare help resolve challenging contemporary issues? Major public figures in conversation with Emma Smith. Today, Michael Gove on equality, levelling up and King Lear.
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Lenny and Will | Act Two
Pursuing his new-found enthusiasm, Lenny watches Sir Peter Hall in rehearsal for a triumphant Measure for Measure and even tries his own hand at Othello.

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.