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Shakespeare and Venice

on BBC Radio 3

BRIAN PULLAN explores how much Shakespeare could have known of the real Venice when he wrote The Merchant. How likely a Venetian capitalist was Antonio and was there a real Shylock?

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Brian Pullan

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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