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Hello, big day today, the Pfizer vaccine is now being rolled out to members of the public

as part of the big COVID vaccination program and the second person to get it, I

kid you not, was a man called William Shakespeare and he lived in Warwickshire which is where William Shakespeare, the original one, was from.

So we've got somebody who has spent some time in the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as

acting in many other places. It's the actor Simon Cook. Hello.

Hi. Thank you for helping us commemorate William Shakespeare's memorable morning.

Have you seen all the jokes on Twitter about all the plays being adapted for the COVID era?

Taming of the flu?

Yeah, yes, there's been some imaginative thinking around this.

The one I came up with was much a dose about nothing. Yeah, yeah some of it

wants to make you cry but yeah. Well it made me laugh but you're a professional so I can

see it's probably a bit more painful for you.

Now my colleague Ben Weiss who fancies himself as a bit of a wordsmith he has actually

adapted a speech from Macbeth to make it about the vaccine.

Would you be able to perhaps read it out for us?

We could give it a well.

Break a leg, Simon.

Thank you very much.

Is this a vaccine I see before me the needle toward my arm?

Come let thee prick me. I have thee not. Because I'm not elderly or a care worker.

Art thou not Pfizer vaccine safe for patients over 70?

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