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The Globe Theatre Special
The new Globe theatre 鈥� built to Elizabethan design 鈥� 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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成人快手 World Service Archive
This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project
