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19/05/2012

BBC Two - Off by Heart: Shakespeare

Nine teenagers compete to become the BBC Shakespeare Schools Champion.

Nine teenagers who have been learning some of Shakespeare's greatest speeches off by heart compete to become the BBC Shakespeare Schools Champion.

William Shakespeare is hardly a name that you would expect to thrill Britain's teenagers, but over the last year thousands have taken part in a nationwide competition to learn some of his greatest speeches off by heart. 

Now, nine finalists, aged between 13 and 15, and from all over the United Kingdom, are off to Stratford-upon-Avon to take part in a life changing series of workshops with the Royal Shakespeare Company. 

Over a single week, they learn how to perform some of Shakespeare's greatest soliloquies from Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Hamlet, before taking part in a dramatically different and closely fought grand final, hosted by Jeremy Paxman, to find the BBC Shakespeare Schools Champion.

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