Programme 2: From the mechanics of language to the music of Shakespeare

Programme 2: From the mechanics of language to the music of Shakespeare

 

Clive James and Peter Porter talk about the grounding they acquired in their own tongue: in 'the way the language is bolted together', whether from learning to parse or from reading the literature of the Renaissance. Dante, Chaucer, Goethe, Browning, Montaigne, and above all Shakespeare are as familar to them as friends.