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The Shakespeare Sessions

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About the show

Your one-stop shop for all things Shakespeare. Catch A-List casts in brand new audio versions of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, plus documentaries from the brightest minds on the bard’s life and work.

Latest episodes

  • Coriolanus: A tragic hero

    May 9, 2019 · 4 min

    A whistle-stop tour through Ancient Rome with writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes.

  • Exit Burbage

    July 23, 2018 · 45 min

    Imagine where we'd be without Shakespeare's plays. It's difficult to contemplate now. But it was thanks to another man that many of them were brought to life. Today, Richard Burbage is a not a household name. But he should be. He's the…

  • My Own Shakespeare: Gareth Malone and Margaret Drabble

    July 11, 2018 · 6 min

    Gareth Malone and Margaret Drabble on strength and nature

  • My Own Shakespeare: Zoe Wanamaker and Jim Al-Khalili

    July 4, 2018 · 6 min

    Zoe Wanamaker on the world of play and Jim Al-Khalili on staying rational.

  • Looking For The Moor

    July 2, 2018 · 45 min

    Hugh Quarshie on Othello’s blackness. Is the character coherent? Is the play racist? Hugh Quarshie is a Ghanaian-born British actor. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and played Othello in Iqbal Khan's production on the main…

  • My Own Shakespeare: David Hare and Martha Kearney

    June 27, 2018 · 6 min

    David Hare and Martha Kearney on deviant psychology and fancy dress

  • My Own Shakespeare: Jools Holland and Kwame Kwei-Armah

    June 20, 2018 · 5 min

    Jools Holland on Falstaff & Kwame Kwei-Armah on falling in love with someone’s story

  • First Folio Road Trip

    June 18, 2018 · 44 min

    From London to Kent, Oxford, the Scottish borders, Suffolk, Nottinghamshire and across the channel to France, Emma Smith takes a road trip to learn more about how Shakespeare's First Folio helped create the Shakespeare we know and love…