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Free Thinking: Shakespeare as inspiration

Shakespeare as inspiration

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Shakespeare as inspiration

From Bollywood films and Pre-Raphaelite art to productions of Shakespeare in places at war

Matthew Sweet is joined by Preti Taneja, Iain Smith and Andrew Dickson to discuss films, art and literature across the centuries, inspired by the plays of William Shakespeare.

Matthew Sweet is joined live by guests including Professor Preti Taneja – author of a novel We That Are Young which sets the King Lear in Delhi, by Dr Iain Smith who studies films from around the world, and by Andrew Dickson, journalist and author of Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe.  As part of Radio 3’s day of music inspired by Shakespeare, Free Thinking looks at paintings by the Pre-Raphaelites, at films from Bollywood and Japan, and at the way Shakespeare’s plays resonate in political hot spots and conflict zones across the world from South Africa to Ukraine.

Producer: Ruth Watts

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