We focus on Richard II looking at a performance by the Berliner Ensemble in 2006. First we speak to two of the people involved in staging the play and then Professor Margaret Shewring talks about the play in its historical and cultural context.

In our second episode comedian Lenny Henry and director Barrie Rutter talk about studying just 14 lines of Othello. We also hear from Peter Kirwan on his year seeing every production in the RSC's Complete Works Season.

In our first episode of Will@Warwick I talk to Professor Jonathan Bate about his work editing a new edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare. We also report from the unveiling of a new statue of Macbeth by the artist Greg Wyatt in Stratford upon Avon.