Shakespeare's Restless World

[nwhyte]

Another excellent series of podcasts from the BBC, exploring Shakespeare's plays in the wider context of culture, politics and knowledge of the times; twenty 13-minute pieces, all presented by Neil McGregor, the Director of the British Museum, who was such a success with the History of the World in 100 Objects podcast series. The single one which

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[stevegreen]

I caught several of those, and was both impressed and enlightened. Every time some idiot whinges about the cost of a tv licence, I point them at programme such as this (and full marks to the BBC for archiving both series online).

[steepholm]

That's an interesting idea. It seems to have been Shakespeare's year for public recantations (c.f. "Oldcastle is not the man" in the epilogue to 2 Henry IV). I wonder who would have been doing the yelling, though? Someone powerful and political, or someone closer to home - a fellow actor, or a miffed Arden in-law, perhaps

[alexmc]

Link to the podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r4shakespeare