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The Globe Theatre Special

The new Globe theatre – built to Elizabethan design – is almost ready to open on the site of Shakespeare's original theatre in Southwark, London. Plus, why Shakespeare is so popular in Japan; and Ian McKellen's screenplay for Richard III is set in an imagined 1930s fascist Britain.

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29 minutes

´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project