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Samantha Bond reads from the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Today's Prom Extra is a literary accompaniment to the Shakespearean feast we're witnessing at this years Proms season, courtesy of an actress who’s played the full gambit of Shakespeare’s women: from the love-sick teenager Juliet to the acerbic Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing as well as a genuinely pregnant Hermione in The Winter’s Tale and a truly terrifying Lady Macbeth.

Featuring readings from A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet.

Presented by Georgia Mann Smith

Edited version broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 during the interval of the ‘Proms at…’ matinee on 13 August (3.00pm)