We’re very excited about the BBC Radio program “Shakespeare’s Restless World”! Historian Neil MacGregor explores Shakespeare’s day and age in a series of broadcasts, each one focusing on an object held in the British Museum – including a clock, a peddler’s trunk, a glass goblet – to highlight the real-life dramas of the Elizabethan era. You can listen to all 20 episodes, archived on the BBC website.
In our own highly-digitized day and age, how wonderful it is to reflect on the material objects – the props, if you like! – that have made up our world over time. Listen to these broadcasts with your students and ask them to think about the things they treasure. In hundreds of years, what objects would tell the children’s life stories? Certainly a question for all of us to consider…