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Drama on 3: A Play for the Heart - The Death of Shakespeare, by Nick Warburton

Series 1, episode 0

As part of the BBC Radio 3's Sounds of Shakespeare weekend, a new play recreating what might have happened on the last day of Shakespeare's life, with a series of encounters filtered through his fevered imagination. What do his many visitors want? Who is the pale boy? And the man with bloody hands? Recorded entirely on location in Mary Arden's Farm, the farmhouse owned by Shakespeare's mother. With Robert Lindsay, Oliver Chris, Gwilym Lee, James Lailey, Susan Jameson, Nicola Ferguson, Nick Underwood, Sam Bough and Brian Protheroe. Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow