Word of Mouth | How Shakespeare Spoke
Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright are joined by linguist David Crystal and actor Ben Crystal to look at the fashion for original pronunciation, and ask: how did Shakespeare speak?
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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.
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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.