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Scottish Schools  2nd Level

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Resources to support 2nd Level Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.

Resources to support the 2nd Level of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.

Scottish Schools  2nd Level: Shakespeare Stories: Hex Factor and Fairies Be Gone

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Hex Factor and Fairies Be Gone

Shakespeare Stories

School Radio - Scottish Schools  2nd Level, Shakespeare Stories, Hex Factor and Fairies Be Gone

New writing featuring characters from Macbeth and Midsummer Night's Dream.

Barry Hutchison gives the story of Macbeth’s witches a Saturday night feel, while human and fairy worlds collide in Lari Don’s tale, Fairies Be Gone.

Hex Factor and Fairies Be Gone are original stories, springing from characters to be found in Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 

Lucy Goldie tells Barry Hutchison’s story of what the three witches did after Macbeth left the stage. 

In Fairies Be Gone, a magical tale based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lari Don tells how the play’s “lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king” spends his first days at school. Rajkumar’s story is told by Manjot Sumal.

Scottish Schools  2nd Level: Shakespeare Stories

Contemporary Scottish authors and performers telling new stories inspired by Shakespeare.

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