The Shakespeare Sessions

Drama #231

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.

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outraged American

Where’s King Lear?

There was a marvelous performance of King Lear in this series with Ian MacDiarmid! Where’d it go? Marvelous performance! Please bring it back!
wolf lover female

Helpful but..

Is vary helpful when I’m doing stuff so I can but it in and do the thing I need to get done. I do wish they would do it more like a book instead of having the sounds of a play…I can get confusing at times but it’s still vary good. And they need to do more, they don’t have king Henry the 5th or the other part of king Henry the 4th (part 2).
RWseaturtle

This Shakespeare Sessions

Superb BBC series! I hope there will be more!
Rick Baum

Great to see the Bard’s plays professionally recorded

Thanks for a great recording and for the interesting content you provide. Invaluable!
Jason-G-M

Absolutely Perfect

Thank you BBC 3. Just what I needed. More please!
drew-bach

Plays and Commentary

Ambitious full cast audio productions and excellent discussions with a wide range of interesting people...what’s not to like? Smartly formatted and always interesting, a great resource for theater nerds. Some of the plays are better than others. I personally recommend The Merchant of Venice for some stellar performances and a a really interesting (occasionally cringey) concept.
dilby_d

Excellent Pocast

I’m extremely impressed with the quality of both the discussion episodes and the full radio productions on this podcast. Looking forward to listening to every episode they release!