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World Service,04 Apr 1996,28 mins

The Globe Theatre Special

Meridian

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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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