Optimally different!

Found these via something @freckles42 RTd on Twitter: a series of BBC documentaries wherein famous actors host documentaries on the histories and performances of each of Shakespeare's plays!

The current latest is Jeremy Irons on the Henrys, but there's also Derek Jakobi on Richard II (from which comes my unofficial motto "I have wasted time, and now time wastes me"), and a bunch of others. Ethan Hawke on Macbeth and Joley Richardson on Shakespeare's women (though, seriously BBC, can you really not find a lady you trust to talk about male characters?) both only have hours left before the BBC takes them offline for whatever infuriating reason the BBC keeps doing that. 

To watch, go here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k7blq/episodes/guide

...oh, and in case you need more incentive to stay tuned, next week's ep will be David Tennant on Hamlet! :D

edit Aaaargh, dammit. I thought the BBC had made their iPlayer available wordwide, but apparently that's for radio only, so if you're not (or can't appear to be) in the UK you're SOL. :(

edit2 (of course, if you know what you're doing, there are ways around that...)