Beyond Shakespeare

Spoilers: The Life and Death of Jack Straw (Act 3, Scene 2) Note: The precise scene division of Act Three is debatable, this episode goes from the general exit of the king and the rebels after the parley up to their re-entrance. Jack Straw is not a long play, but that won't stop us going into ridiculous amounts of detail about it. This is a little interlude scene, where Tom Miller and Nobs pass the time of day, and Tom makes an appeal to the Queen. The scenes are illustrated via a rough cut of our soon to be released full cast audio adaptation - which languishes in the edit as we post this. The rough cut of Act 3 scene 2 to The Life and Death of Jack Straw is performed by Sarah Golding as Nobs, Hugh Weller-Poley as Tom Miller, Gillian Horgan as the Queen Mother, and Pamela Flanagan as the Usher. With your host Robert Crighton. BE WARNED - If you just want to listen to the play as a play, don't listen to the spoilers episodes. Come back later, or don't listen. However, if you find early drama hard to follow