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Free Thinking: Dame Janet Suzman

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23/04/2014

Dame Janet Suzman

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Dame Janet Suzman

Actress and director Dame Janet Suzman is in extended conversation with Philip Dodd.

Actress and director Dame Janet Suzman is in extended conversation with Philip Dodd. She talks about acting and directing and politics in her native South Africa.

Dame Janet Suzman has appeared on stage at the Royal Shakespeare company as Beatrice, Kate, Cleopatra, Portia, Rosaline, Ophelia. On TV she played opposite Michael Gambon as Philip E Marlowe's wife in The Singing Detective. In her native South Africa she has directed Brecht, Chekhov and Shakespeare. She is the author of Acting With Shakespeare: Three Comedies, a series of masterclasses, and Not Hamlet.

Today is the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. In extended conversation with Philip Dodd, Janet Suzman talks about acting and directing and politics in her native South Africa - which goes to the polls on May 7th.

Part of Radio 3's celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth

Producer: Zahid Warley.

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