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Shakespeare online: a few highlights

Paul Murphy

Senior Producer, A&Mi

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Rosie Cavaliero, Ron Cook and David Tennant

There are a few highlights that you may have missed in the current that are still available for a limited time online.

Last week the British Museum's Neil MacGregor, presenter of Radio 4's Shakespeare's Restless World, along with curator Barrie Cook took part in , answering listeners questions for a couple hours. Barrie and Neil's answers听are available on the .

Radio 4's The Reunion told the story behind the rebuilding of the Globe theatre in London - you can .

While The Telegraph's radio critic at what appeared to be a surfeit of Shakespeare:

"Why has Shakespeare been assimilated into some ghastly mass national cultural branding?"

She went on to admit that MacGregor's programme "Shakespeare鈥檚 Restless World turned out to be superb".

Back to Radio 3's trio of Shakespeare plays of which Reynolds wrote:

"The first was Twelfth Night. David Tennant, actor of the year in the new 主播大秀 Audio Drama Awards, played Malvolio, Rosie Cavaliero (actress of the year) played Maria. I wish I could say they were rubbish, it being more fun to damn than praise. I can鈥檛. They were astonishingly good..."

You can hear and online for the next 13 days (or for the next seven). On Sunday it's the turn of with David Warner as Prospero, Carl Prekopp as Ariel, Rose Leslie as Miranda and Don Warrington as Gonzalo.

Paul Murphy is the editor of the Radio blog.

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