New Thinking: Everything to Everybody - Shakespeare for the people
Islam Issa hears from actor Adrian Lester and Professor Ewan Fernie about a project that celebrates Birmingham's amazing people's Shakespeare library founded by George Dawson
Islam Issa hears from actor Adrian Lester and Professor Ewan Fernie about a project that will revive the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library. Founded with the help of George Dawson - a man who had a powerful vision of Birmingham as a progressive social and cultural centre in the mid 19th century - the library houses Britain's most important Shakespeare collection, comprising 43,000 volumes, including a copy of the First Folio 1623. Over three years, the Everything to Everybody project aims to share these cultural riches with the people of Birmingham in a wide range of imaginative ways.
More information available here: https://everythingtoeverybody.bham.ac.uk/
This episode is one of a series of conversations - New Thinking - produced in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UK Research & Innovation.
Further podcasts are available on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 Free Thinking website under the playlist New Research /programmes/p03zws90
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
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