Culture chat: why do we still love Shakespeare?

Life and Art from FT Weekend

Forhecz Topher

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Shakespeare turns 460 this year, and this week we’re talking about why he’s still as important as ever. FT Weekend Magazine editor Matt Vella and deputy editor Cordelia Jenkins join Lilah to share what they learned while putting together their recent special, which features Shakespeare mysteries, lore, and some of the UK’s best known theatre actors. We also talk about the experience of watching his plays live. It’s summer, after all, and the outdoor Shakespeare festivals are on, and as the Magazine’s tagline suggests: Shakespeare Lives!

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We love hearing from you. Lilah is on Instagram @lilahrap. We’re on X @lifeandartpod and email at [email protected].

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Shakespeare links (all FT links get you past the paywall):

– Cordelia’s interview with the four actors who played King Lear is here.

– Explore 28 great Shakespeare mysteries here: https://on.ft.com/4ccEz7p

– Unravelling the secret history of the red book of Hamlet: https://on.ft.com/3x5ZFFP

– Who was Shakespeare? What do we really know about his life? https://on.ft.com/4cgvfzm

– Here’s Cordelia’s column on Love Island being like the Elizabethan court: https://on.ft.com/3x6CkDT

– Lilah recommends the new Bat for Lashes album, The Dream of Delphi. Here’s Arwa’s profile of her: https://on.ft.com/4ely8Rc

– Cordelia Jenkins is on X @CordeliaJ. Matt Vella is @mattvella

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0:00.0	Welcome to Life and Art from FT Weekend.
0:03.3	I'm Lila Raptopoulos and this is our Friday chat show.
0:07.8	Today we are doing something a little different.
0:10.1	My guests and I didn't see the same movie or listen to the same album.
0:14.1	Instead, we're talking about a few plays,
0:16.5	all written by a little playwright you may have heard of named William Shakespeare.
0:20.5	It's summer and wherever you are, there is probably a Shakespeare in the Park production near you
0:25.1	or a summer staging of as you like it or Taming of the Shrew.
0:29.2	And to celebrate the start of summer and one of the most enduring artists in history,
0:33.8	our friends at the FT Weekend magazine have released a whole issue dedicated to this one man.
0:39.1	So let's get into it.
0:40.3	I'm Lila, and though I may be mad, there is method in it.
0:44.1	Joining me from London, he is a man more sinned against than sinning.
0:48.1	It's the FT Weekend magazine editor, Matt Vela.
0:53.6	How are you?
0:54.8	Hi.
0:55.6	That's the best intro I've ever got.
0:57.6	Good.
0:58.8	Also in London, this one's long, but it feels right.
1:02.5	Women will love her that she is a woman more worth than any man.
1:06.2	Men that she is the rarest of all women are aptly named deputy editor, Cordelia Jenkins.
1:10.8	How true. Hello. Well, she is the rarest of all women, our aptly named deputy editor, Cordelia Jenkins.
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