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The Shakespeare Speaks series is a co-production between BBC Learning English and The Open University.

Shakespeare Speaks is a 20-part series about the life, times and language of William Shakspeare. It is available as an animated and radio series and it has a supporting interactive website, downloadble materials, podcasts and a rich social media experience.

The series is available on BBC Learning English with extra materials and actor interviews on The Open University website.

There are 20 episodes currently available:

• As dead as a doornail
• I'll send him packing
• All that glisters is not gold
• Strange bedfellows
• Though this be madness, yet there's method in't
• Wild-goose chase
• What's done is done
• The world's mine oyster
• A tower of strength
• Spotless reputation
• The green eyed monster
• In a pickle
• Forever and a day
• Give no words but mum
• Pound of flesh
• A fool's paradise
• Not budge an inch
• I must be cruel, only to be kind
• Wear my heart upon my sleeve
• Greek to me

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