The Hamlet Podcast
Conor Hanratty
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!
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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
Mar 5, 2023 • 15min
Macbeth | Episode 29 - Thou Hast It Now
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act III, Scene i - The action moves to Forres, where Banquo voices some concerns...
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Feb 26, 2023 • 11min
Macbeth | Episode 28 - Suspicion of the Deed
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act II, Scene iv - Macduff appears, and reveals that Macbeth has been elected king of Scotland.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Feb 19, 2023 • 12min
Macbeth | Episode 27 - Turned Wild in Nature
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act II, Scene iv - Ross and an Old Man discuss the strong events that have happened during the night.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Feb 12, 2023 • 11min
Macbeth | Episode 26 - To Ireland, I
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act II, Scene iii - Banquo manages the crowd while Malcolm and Donalbain wonder what to do next.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Feb 5, 2023 • 11min
Macbeth | Episode 25 - Look to the Lady
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Act II, Scene iii - Macbeth starts to explain himself. Lady Macbeth attempts to distract everyone.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
