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Laura Corin
02-29-2008, 01:24 AM
In Our Time - King Lear (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml)

Go to the above page and click on 'Listen to latest edition'. It's a discussion between a highly-intelligent moderator and three university professors.

Laura

Lorna
02-29-2008, 05:10 AM
These are always excellent. Thank you Laura!

Michelle in MO
02-29-2008, 06:54 AM
King Lear was! His story is told by Geoffrey of Monmouth in The History of the Kings of Britain. My oldest said, "I thought you knew that already, Mom!" No, I didn't----I think she must have read Shakespeares King Lear and some of the excellent historical notes that Roma Gill provides.