Shakespeare’s Life

Synopsis

Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones, Professor John Sutherland and textual scholar Grace Ioppolo examine what we do know about the life of William Shakespeare. How was the low-born son of an illiterate craftsman, with a meagre education, able to write with such skill and erudition? How did a provincial man manage to become so attuned to the politics of kings? And how do we know that the plays that we have are the right plays, written by the right man and published in the form they were written?

Series

In Our Time

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Multimedia; Radio

Year of production

2001

Notes

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 15/3/2001

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

biographies; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Online availability

URI

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00547ct

Price

free

Delivery

Streamed

Credits

Producer

Charlie Taylor

Contributor

Grace Ioppolo; John Sutherland (3); Katherine Duncan-Jones; Melvyn Bragg

Production Company

Name

BBC Radio 4

Web

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 External site opens in new window

Archive

Name

British Library Sound Archive

Email

listening@bl.uk

Web

http://www.bl.uk/nsa External site opens in new window

Phone

020 7412 7676

Fax

020 7412 7441

Address

96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB

Distributor

Name

BBC Radio 4 Archive