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Free Thinking - James Shapiro, Macbeth on Film, Barrie Keeffe, East End museum

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro discusses 1606 - the year Macbeth was written. And Matthew Sweet reviews the new film starring Michael Fassbender in "the Scottish play".

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro discusses 1606 - the year Macbeth was written. And Matthew Sweet is joined by Sonia Massai and Andrew Hilton to review the new film starring Michael Fassbender and look at other cinematic versions of "the Scottish play". Matthew also talks to playwright Barrie Keeffe about a revival of his 1977 play Barbarians, while Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell offers her take on the controversy surrounding the Jack The Ripper Museum in London's East End.

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