Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Soldiers and War
Colonel Tim Collins & Professor Emma Smith consider Soldiers & War in Shakespeare's plays
Arts & Ideas · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
The first of a series of six events looking at Shakespeare's depiction of different professions in his plays. Colonel Tim Collins OBE, whose rousing eve of battle speech to his troops as they prepared to go into Iraq in March 2003 has become famous, and Shakespearean expert Professor Emma Smith will discuss soldiers and war in plays including Henry V with presenter Rana Mitter. Recorded in front of an audience at the Imperial College Union earlier this evening.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.