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Episode 2—Strange Justice
2/5 Albie Sachs reflects on his time as a justice of South Africa's Constitutional Court.
Episode 1—Strange Justice
1/5 South African lawyer Albie Sachs reflects on the momentous changes in his country.
Yong Li Lan—Shakespeare Around the Globe
5/5 Yong Li Lan describes how popular Shakespeare remains in China and south east Asia.
Aimara Resende—Shakespeare Around the Globe
4/5 Aimara Resende focuses on the power and influence of Shakespeare in Latin America.
Eldred Jones—Shakespeare Around the Globe
3/5 Eldred Jones explores the mutual attraction between Shakespeare and Africa.
Narguess Farzad—Shakespeare Around the Globe
2/5 Narguess Farzad explores how Iranians fell under the spell of Shakespeare.
Poonam Trivedi—Shakespeare Around the Globe
1/5 Poonam Trivedi explains how Bollywood helped to make Shakespeare's reputation in India.
Akram Khan—Here's Looking at Me
4/5 Dancer Akram Khan on Darvish Fakhr's nine-panel portrait by which captures him in action.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown—Shakespeare and Love
5/5 Writer and journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown examines interracial love in Shakespeare.
Helen Hackett—Shakespeare and Love
4/5 Helen Hackett argues that Shakespeare used sonnets to speak a higher truth about love.