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School Radio,20 mins

SeriesShakespeare Stories

Hex Factor and Fairies Be Gone

Scottish Schools 2nd Level

Available for over a year

Hex Factor and Fairies Be Gone are original stories, springing from characters to be found in Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Lucy Goldie tells Barry Hutchison’s story of what the three witches did after Macbeth left the stage. In Fairies Be Gone, a magical tale based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lari Don tells how the play’s “lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king” spends his first days at school. Rajkumar’s story is told by Manjot Sumal.

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