Shakespeare Lives

New Shakespeare Songbook (2016x19)

Air date: Apr 23, 2016

Shakespeare was a great songwriter – with songs appearing in many of his greatest plays. To mark the 400th anniversary of his death, the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union have commissioned a New Shakespeare Songbook inviting composers and musicians throughout Europe to write new songs based on the Bard’s texts. Presenter Andy Akinwolere takes us on a musical journey through Europe as contemporary songwriters respond to the poetry of Shakespeare’s sonnets and plays.