The Poet, the President and the Travelling
Players follows the English
Shakespeare Company on their tour of rural Malawi with Macbeth, finding parallels between the Scottish tragedy and Malawi's current political situation under dictator
Dr Hastings Banda. And exiled
Malawian poet Jack Mapanje , who spent nearly two years in Mikuyu prison as a result of Banda's censorship policy, reads some of his poems. Producer John Purdie
Series editor Nigel Williams
A Union Pictures production for BBCtv ● STEREO
