Episode 9 - Scylla and Charybdis

Stephen breakfasts at the Tower in Sandycove. 

Stephen teaches in Dalkey. 

Discussing Plato's Theatetus and Meno. 

Matthew Sweet is joined by Professor Preti Taneja – author of a novel We That Are Young which sets the King Lear in Delhi, by Dr Iain Robert Smith who studies films from around the world, and by Andrew Dickson, journalist and author of Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespear ...  عرض المزيد

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's most popular works, written c1595 in the last years of Elizabeth I. It is a comedy of love and desire and their many complications as well as their simplicity, and a reflection on society's expectations and limits. It is also a ...  عرض المزيد

Poetry reading