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Hello, you're listening to the Arts and Ideas podcast. I'm Islamaisa and this edition

is part of the series New Thinking, in which we look at the latest research in UK universities.

So, how would you at home like to own a precious copy of the 1623 first folio, that coveted collection of Shakespeare's works?

Well, you'd better move to Birmingham or discover some peaky-blinder ancestry because England's second city houses what is believed to be the world's only publicly owned copy.

I know what you're thinking. That beautiful city with more canals than Venice and more

trees than Paris also has a first folio. In fact, Birmingham houses the world's largest Shakespeare

Library outside of Stratford-Pon-Avon and the US. The Everything to Everybody Project is about to

give Shakespeare back to the people of this city.

And I'm about to talk to the project's director,

Professor Ewan Fernie of the Shakespeare Institute,

who's spent the last year's uncovering just how the city's Shakespeare collection came to be and what we can actually do with it.

I'm also with the project patron, Born and Bread in Brum,

the award-winning actor and director,

Adrian Lester.

Adrian, did you have any idea that this collection existed in your city?

None.

None whatsoever.

And when you mentioned it to me, I was a bit flabbergasted, really.

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