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School Radio,29 Jan 2016,15 mins

The Tempest: The Isle of Noises

Shakespeare Retold

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We meet a 'real-life' shipwrecked sailor, who has a chance encounter with Shakespeare outside the Blackfriars Theatre. He goes on to help stage one of his plays and even appears to inspire some of Caliban's famous lines in The Tempest... A Frank Cottrell-Boyce story inspired by The Tempest. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt

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