This episode links events that happened in different eras; two actors perform Othello 100 years apart, two musical geniuses live next door, two centuries apart, and one murder leads to ghostly apparitions for over a century.
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Theatre Royal
,
Drury Lane
,
London
The Golden Earrings
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Written by
Milo
Harries
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Performed by
Stephen
Fry
Delve Deeper
About this story
19th-Century Ira Aldridge and 20th-Century Paul Robeson. Both actors, both Black Americans, both playing Shakespeare in London. But what’s the link?
It’s the Messiah
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Written by
James
Rampton
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Performed by
Neil
Fleming
Delve Deeper
About this story
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) and Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970). Two great musicians who happened to live next door to each other when they moved to London - just in very different centuries.
193 Steps
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Written by
Robbie
Stamp
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Performed by
Kate
Reid
Delve Deeper
About this story
In 1897 actor William Terris is brutally murdered outside a theatre stage door. Its not the end, but the start of a haunting across over a century…