Women and Shakespeare

S6: E5: Harriet Walter on She Speaks! What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said

Sat, 23 May 2026 10:00:00 +0100

Dame Harriet Walter discusses and recites from her poetry book, She Speaks! What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said.

For a complete episode transcript, http://www.womenandshakespeare.com

Interviewer: Varsha Panjwani
Guest: Harriet Walter

Producer: Stefano Masi
Transcript: Benjamin Poore
Artwork: Wenqi Wan

Suggested Citation: Walter, Harriet in conversation with Panjwani, Varsha (2026). Harriet Walter on She Speaks! What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said. Women & Shakespeare [podcast], Series 6, Ep.5. http://womenandshakespeare.com/

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S6: E4: Jyotsna G. Singh on Shakespeare, Postcoloniality, and Global Interconnectedness

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

Women and Shakespeare

S6: E5: Harriet Walter on She Speaks! What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said

S6: E4: Jyotsna G. Singh on Shakespeare, Postcoloniality, and Global Interconnectedness

S6: E3: Lubaaba Al‑Azami on Travel and Exchanges between India and England

S6: E2: Hanh Bui on Ageing in Shakespeare

S6: E1: Sophie Duncan on Searching for Juliet

S5: E6:Michelle Ephraim on her memoir Green World—a powerful dialogue between lived experience and Jessica in The Merchant of Venice

S5: E5: Claudia Mayer on Designing for Shakespeare Plays

S5: E4: Dominique Le Gendre on Composing Music for Shakespeare Plays

S5: E3: Kerry Frampton on Midsummer Mechanicals, Clowning, and Working-Class Shakespeare Theatre

S5: E2: Alexa Alice Joubin on Shakespeare & East Asia, Trans as Method, and AI in Shakespeare

S5: E1: Poonam Trivedi on Shakespeare & India

S4: E6: Tiffany Stern on Rehearsal Practices, Ballads, Popular Entertainments

S4: E5: Lolita Chakrabarti on Red Velvet and Hamnet

S4: E4: Emily Ingram on Shakespeare, Popular Culture, and Props

S4: E3: Ella Hawkins on Period Dress in Contemporary Shakespeare Performance & Biscuit Art

S4: E2: Hannah Khalil on adapting *Henry VIII* for Shakespeare's Globe

S4:E1: Emma Smith on Approaching Shakespeare, First Folio, and Portable Magic of Books

S3: E6: Wendy Lennon on Shakespeare, Race, and Pedagogy

S3: E5: Lyn Gardner on Reviewing Shakespeare

S3: E4: Emma Whipday on Shakespeare's Sister, Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies, and Practice-Based Research

S3: E3: Yarit Dor on Fight & Intimacy Direction in Shakespeare

S3: E2: Chloe Gong on Romeo & Juliet & YA Adaptations: These Violent Delights & Our Violent Ends

S3:E1: Sarah Olive on Shakespeare in Education

Something Old-Something New 2: Bonus Episode: Chris Bush with Ivanna Vargas

S2:E6: Mary Bly on Lizzie & Dante and Romeo & Juliet

S2:E5: Naomi Miller on Imperfect Alchemist, Mary Sidney Herbert, Mary Wroth

S2:E4:Part2: Adjoa Andoh on Richard II, Inclusive Theatre Lighting, Julius Caesar

S2:E4:Part1: Adjoa Andoh on Women of Colour, Richard II, Ulysses

S2:E3:Nadia Nadarajah on Shakespeare in Sign Language (BSL), Celia, Titania, Guildenstern, Cleopatra

S2:E2: Andrea Smith on Radio Shakespeares

Something Old-Something New 1: Bonus Episode: Janet Suzman with Lauren Grajewski

S2:E1: Professor Diana Henderson on Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare Films, and Shake-shifting

S1:E6: Janet Suzman on Hamlet, Othello, Antony & Cleopatra

S1:E5: Kathryn Pogson on Portia, Ophelia, Lady Anne

S1:E4:Farah-Karim Cooper on Shakespeare's Globe, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Cosmetics, Gestures

S1:E3:Chris Bush on adapting A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles

S1:E2:Dona Croll on Cleopatra, John of Gaunt, Black Actors in Britain

S1:E1:Delia Jarrett-Macauley on 'Moses, Citizen & Me', 'Shakespeare, Race and Performance'

Introduction: Bonus Episode

S4: E2: Hannah Khalil on adapting Henry VIII for Shakespeare's Globe