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Shakespeare's Restless World
Making a selection of objects from the British Museum and collections across the UK, Neil MacGregor uncovers the stories they tell about Shakespeare's world.
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4.5 stars from 171 ratings
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“I’ve listened to this about 15 times. It first kept me company on New Year’s Eve 2013 in a tiny Fawlty Towers-like B&B in Scotland😆. I keep coming back because I hear something in a way I hadn’t before. It is so enjoyable and Neil makes me feel like I’m right there looking at the objects with...”Read full review »
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United States of America ·
06/28/23
Absolutely brilliant!
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“Just as entertaining as educative, witty and charming, carried out with sovereign sway and masterdom! The round up at the end is breathtaking.”
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Sweden ·
06/02/20
Shakespeare for everyone
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“This podcast gives an exiting insight in Shakespeare, the time he lived in and his life in a way that is easy to understand.”
Norwegian View via Apple Podcasts ·
Norway ·
09/07/19
Recent Episodes
Published 05/11/12
Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum, brings to an end his object-based history. During the past four weeks he has taken artefacts from William Shakespeare's time and explored how Elizabethan and Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing world in which...
Published 05/11/12
Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum, continues his object-based history. Taking artefacts from William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing world in which they lived.
With old certainties shifting...
Published 05/10/12
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