The Hamlet Podcast
A weekly podcast now exploring Shakespeare's Macbeth. Every episode covers approximately 30 lines of the play - week by week, until we finish sometime in 2023!
Latest episodes
May 21, 2023 • 13min
Macbeth | Episode 39 - Most Admired Disorder
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act III, Scene iv - Macbeth continues to shout at the Ghost, and Lady Macbeth has to send everyone away.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
May 21, 2023 • 10min
Macbeth | Episode 38 - The Maws of Kites (revised)
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act III, Scene iv - The King and Queen attempt to gloss over Macbeth's strange behaviour, while he reels at the sight of the ghost.
*this is a revised version of the episode - there was a glitch and a long gap at the start; the content is the same!*
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
May 7, 2023 • 16min
Macbeth | Episode 37 - You Look But On A Stool
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act III, Scene iv - Lady Macbeth tries to cover for Macbeth, but then he starts acting even more strangely...
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Apr 30, 2023 • 14min
Macbeth | Episode 36 - The Best o' the Cut-throats
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act III, Scene iv - The Banquet finally begins. But Macbeth has to slip out and deal with an uninvited figure...
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Apr 23, 2023 • 14min
Macbeth | Episode 35 - Fly Good Fleance, Fly!
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act III, Scene iii - The Murderers - now three of them - await their target.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Apr 16, 2023 • 16min
Macbeth | Episode 34 - Full of Scorpions
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act III, Scene ii - Macbeth has a plan. But he isn't sharing it.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Apr 2, 2023 • 15min
Macbeth | Episode 33 - Malice Domestic
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act III, Scene ii - The Macbeths are both troubled - but dinner is approaching.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Mar 26, 2023 • 14min
Macbeth | Episode 32 - Masking The Business
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act III, Scene i - Macbeth tasks the murderers with Banquo's assassination.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Mar 19, 2023 • 17min
Macbeth | Episode 31 - All By The Name of Dogs
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act III, Scene i - Macbeth explains to the Murderers just how much harm Banquo has done to them...
**Sincere apologies: in the heady flow of recording I said that Gonville and Caius College is in Oxford - it is OF COURSE in Cambridge!**
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Mar 12, 2023 • 20min
Macbeth | Episode 30 - A Fruitless Crown
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act III, Scene i - Macbeth starts to wonder how big a problem Banquo might be...
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
