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Dante's Inferno in Jamaica, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time re-examined, Shakespeare's first theatre

Jamaica's former poet laureate, Lorna Goodison on Dante's Inferno, Michael Symmons Roberts on French composer Olivier Messiaen, and Daniel Swift on Shakespeare's first theatre

Jamaica's former poet laureate, Lorna Goodison, on setting Dante's Inferno on the island of her birth; Journalist Joanna Moorhead on Pope Francis' relationship with the arts; Poet and librettist Michael Symmons Roberts on writing a form-breaking book to re-examine French composer Olivier Messiaen's form-breaking masterwork - Quartet for the End of Time; and going in search of an important piece of theatre history with Daniel Swift, author of The Dream Factory: London's First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare.

Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Ekene Akalawu

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