Such Stuff: The Shakespeare's Globe Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
S8 Ep5: Creativity
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode in our series on arts and wellbeing, we explore the question of creativity. Creativity has come up again and again in this series,...
S8 Ep4: Inspirations
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of our series on arts and wellbeing, we catch up with some of the creatives and scholars in our Globe network to find out about ...
S8 Ep3: Making a connection
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of our series on arts and wellbeing, we turn to the question of connection. What are the connections that arts spaces can bring ...
S8 Ep2: Being vulnerable
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this second episode in our series on the connection between the arts and wellbeing, we dig a little deeper into expression and vulnerability. Whils...
S8 Ep1: The Feeling Brain
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a new series dedicated to the connection between the arts and wellbeing, we explore the many ways in which the arts enrich our lives. As we head ou...
S7 Ep6: Why we need LGBTQ+ inclusive schools
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we’ve been celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month. In this episode, our Head of Learning and former drama teacher Lucy Cuthbertson explores th...
S7 Ep5: The Such Stuff Christmas Cracker Bonanza
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our final episode of the year, some of the wonderful Such Stuff team offer up festive readings, poems and stories that bring joy and contemplation ...
S7 Ep4: A Christmas miracle?
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our second advent episode, we turn to a snowy story from the history of the Globe theatre, our very own Christmas miracle. In the icy winter of 159...
S7 Ep3: She's behind you!
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the festive season upon us, we dedicate the first of our advent offerings on Such Stuff to that great theatrical festive tradition... panto! With...
S7 Ep2: Fear, conjuring and catharsis in Macbeth
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we return to the subject of Shakespeare and Fear, unpicking the relationship between our very real fears and anxieties and our obsess...
S7 Ep1: Ghost stories
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the podcast, we get into the spirit of the spooky month and take a deep dive into the world of ghost stories, with frights, thrills...
S6 Ep5: How do we decolonise Shakespeare?
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of our series on Shakespeare and Race, we take a closer look at the question that has underpinned the entire series: how do we de...
S6 Ep4: How whiteness dominates our theatres
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the fourth episode in our series on Shakespeare and Race, we turn to the theatre industry to examine how whiteness has dominated – and continues ...
S6 Ep3: How whiteness dominates education
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the third episode of our series on Shakespeare and Race, we look at our education system and the way that we’re teaching the next generation. The...
S6 Ep2: How whiteness dominates the study of Shakespeare
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode in our series on Shakespeare and Race, we take a closer look at the way that whiteness has dominated the way we read Shakespeare...
S6 Ep1: Understanding whiteness and racism
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the theatre closed, we take a moment to ask: when we reopen, should we really go back to business as usual? We don’t just want to pay lip servi...
S5 Ep11: The Shakespeare diaries, Love's Labour's Lost
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we bring you another episode of the Shakespeare diaries. Our very own actor artistic director Michelle Terry and actor Paul ...
S5 Ep10: The Shakespeare Diaries, As You Like It
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we return to the Shakespeare diaries. Our very own actor artistic director Michelle Terry and actor Paul Ready discuss Shake...
S5 Ep9: The Shakespeare Diaries, A Midsummer Night's Dream
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, the Shakespeare diaries returns. Our very own actor artistic director Michelle Terry and actor Paul Ready discuss Shakespear...
S5 Ep8: Remember thee
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we take a moment of reflection. As the future of theatre is in question, we take inspiration from the Globe’s past. What d...
S5 Ep7: Shakespeare and race 2020
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we return to the question of Shakespeare and Race. Professor Farah Karim-Cooper is joined by Professor Ayanna Thompson and D...
S5 Ep6: Hamnet with Maggie O'Farrell
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we’re joined by special guest Maggie O’Farrell. The author of eight novels, plus the Sunday Time no. 1 best-selling memo...
S5 Ep5: The Shakespeare Diaries, Much Ado About Nothing
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we return to the Shakespeare Diaries. Our very own actor artistic director Michelle Terry and actor Paul Ready discuss Shake...
S5 Ep4: Love in Isolation
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast we introduce Shakespeare’s Globe’s new project: Love in Isolation. Love in Isolation will see an extraordinary array of a...
S5 Ep3: The Shakespeare Diaries, Macbeth
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first in a new feature on the podcast, The Shakespeare Diaries follows our very own artistic director and actor Michelle Terry and actor Paul Read...
S5 Ep2: 10 Things I Hate About You
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of a new series specially created in light of recent circumstances, we travel back in time to 1999 to Padua High School, Seattle,...
S5 Ep1: A message from Michelle Terry
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of our new series of Such Stuff, specially created in light of recent circumstances, a message from our Artistic Director Michelle Terry on copi...
S4 Ep3: International Women's Day
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we celebrate International Women’s Day. We catch up with women both on and off our stages, to see how they’re championing stories ...
S4 Ep2: Generations
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we go behind the scenes with our Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production of Macbeth. Created especially for teenagers, it’...
S4 Ep1: Notes to the Forgotten She-Wolves
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we go behind the scenes with Notes to the Forgotten She-Wolves, a special series of events honouring women and non-binary people from...
S3 Ep11: Christmas at the (snow) Globe
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Christmas at the (Snow) Globe! It’s that time of year again: the frost is settling on the thatched roof, the decorations have gone up… and...
S3 Ep10: Something wicked this way comes... again
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Halloween at the Globe! We searched the Globe high and low for all things superstitious and spooky… We go behind the scenes with the upcoming...
S3 Ep9: What country, friends, is this?
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As Brexit rumbles on to an uncertain end, we take a look back at the theatrical experiment we’ve been running alongside the country’s political on...
S3 Ep8: The fun of the fair
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, Bartholomew Fair was held on the 24 August in the heart of London, and people flocked to the notorious streets of Smithfield for the fa...
S3 Ep7: Dark side of the dream
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play we come back to again and again, the irreverent story of lovers, royalty, fairies and actors crossing paths in a...
S3 Ep6: Radical optimism
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In an age of political antagonism and, all too often, despair, is being optimistic and hopeful about the future a truly radical act? Shakespeare’s c...
S3 Ep5: Mirrors and windows
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast we chat disability and performance, asking how we increase representation on our stages, taking a look at the characters and ...
S3 Ep4: Politicising Shakespeare
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast we celebrate the particular fascination of Poland with Shakespeare, exploring how Polish artists have appreciated, performed ...
S3 Ep3: Refugee Week 2019
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate World Refugee Day, we catch up with some of the extraordinary artists who have joined us here at Shakespeare’s Globe for Refugee Week. ...
S3 Ep2: Remembering Sam Wanamaker
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Wanamaker was an American actor and director, and the visionary behind Shakespeare’s Globe. He founded the Globe project in 1970, and worked tir...
S3 Ep1: Women and Power
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Season 3 of Such Stuff, we go behind the scenes with the Women and Power festival. As women take to the Globe stage to play th...
S2 Ep7: Who is Shakespeare for?
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Such Stuff, we tackle the aura of inaccessibility around Shakespeare, and the preconceptions that the plays are too hard, irrelevan...
S2 Ep6: This sceptred isle
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Such Stuff, as the country is in the midst of political paralysis and constitutional crisis over Brexit, we take this moment to loo...
S2 Ep5: International Women's Day
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Such Stuff, we celebrate International Women’s Day. Taking a look at our own work, and a wider look across the industry, we talk ...
S2 Ep4: Love and hate prevail
21 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Such Stuff, we go behind the scenes with Romeo and Juliet. A Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production, this fast-paced 90-...
S2 Ep3: Pride, Then and Now
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Such Stuff, we go behind the scenes with the Pride, Then and Now festival, asking how we perform sexuality, and how sexuality is pe...
S2 Ep2: BONUS: Meet Sean Holmes, Associate Artistic Director
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our new Associate Artistic Director, Sean Holmes, joins us on the podcast to share his relationship and previous experiences with Shakespeare over the...
S2 Ep1: What would you sell your soul for?
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Season 2 of Such Stuff, we go behind the scenes with Dark Night of the Soul, a festival of new writing from a collective of wo...
S1 Ep11: Christmas at the Globe
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Christmas at the Globe! To get into the festive spirit, we travel back in time with Dr Will Tosh to the frosty winter of 1607/8, when the riv...
S1 Ep10: Something wicked this way comes
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Halloween at the Globe! We searched the Globe high and low for all things superstitious and spooky… We go behind the scenes with the upcoming...
S1 Ep9: Bonus: Shakespeare and remembrance
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
November 11 2018 marks the centenary of Armistice Day, one hundred years since the end of the First World War. Ahead of Shakespeare and Remembrance he...
S1 Ep8: The past and the present
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Such Stuff, we take a closer look at history plays, old and new, asking: why do we turn to the history play at times of crisis and ...
S1 Ep7: Bonus: Literature as friendship
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This summer, community groups, both local and wider, came together with our sonnet ensemble to fill the Globe with the sounds of all 154 sonnets for o...
S1 Ep6: Shakespeare and race
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Such Stuff, we follow up on our first ever Shakespeare and Race festival, and ask: what does it mean to be a person of colour and study, ...
S1 Ep5: Bonus: Composing for the ensemble
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Composer and Globe Music Associate James Maloney takes us behind the scenes on how to compose the music for two shows in just ten weeks, when you can’...
S1 Ep4: The ensemble experiment
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Such Stuff, we go behind the scenes with the Globe Ensemble and ask: what happens when any person can play any character, and what do aud...
S1 Ep3: Refugee Week
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Such Stuff, we take a look back at Refugee Week at the Globe and ask: how can art respond to the crises of our times? We go behin...
S1 Ep2: The missing women
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the first ever episode of Such Stuff we’ll be asking: why is it so important to reclaim the untold stories of women from history? Emilia Bassan...
S1 Ep1: Trailer: Welcome to Such Stuff
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Such Stuff is the new podcast from Shakespeare's Globe. What happens when the old and the new collide? We'll be looking at Shakespeare's transform...