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
Written by
Milo
Harries
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
Written by
James
Rampton
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
Written by
Robbie
Stamp
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…