Best Shakespeare Podcasts (2024)

In the twenty-fourth Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael has to issue a N(strictly)SFW warning as some of the language required to expound the blunt meanings of the outrageously suggestive and sexually complex and conflicted Sonnet 144 takes on something of a four-letter hue… Sebastian is the writer of The Sonneteer, a p…

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXLVII – My Love Is as a Fever, Longing Still 1:03

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXLVII – My Love Is as a Fever, Longing Still Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXLVI – Poor Soul, the Centre of My Sinful Earth 1:06

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXLVI – Poor Soul, the Centre of My Sinful Earth Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXLV – Those Lips That Love’s Own Hand Did Make 1:09

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXLV – Those Lips That Love’s Own Hand Did Make Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXLIV – Two Loves I Have of Comfort and Despair 1:11

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXLIV – Two Loves I Have of Comfort and Despair Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXLIII – Lo, as a Careful Housewife Runs to Catch 1:02

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXLIII – Lo, as a Careful Housewife Runs to Catch Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets – CXLII: Love Is My Sin and Thy Dear Virtue Hate 1:09

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William Shakesepeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael – CXLII: Love Is My Sin and Thy Dear Virtue Hate Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXLI – In Faith I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes 1:11

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebsatian Michael: CXLI – In Faith I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Saturday’s Sonnet – Episode 23: A Torment Thrice Threefold 32:57

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In the twenty-third Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael re-encounters The Fair Youth as the poet admonishes The Dark Lady for taking his Sweet’st Friend away from him in Sonnet 133. Sebastian is the writer of The Sonneteer, a play ‘on passion, power and possession’, which features some of these sonnets and looks at the r…

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXL – Be Wise as Thou Art Cruel, Do Not Press 1:12

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXL – Be Wise as Thou Art Cruel, Do Not Press Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXXXIX – O Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong 1:04

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXXXIX – O Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXXXVIII – When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth 1:11

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXXXVIII – When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXXXVII – Thou Blind Fool Love, What Dost Thou to Mine Eyes 1:05

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXXXVII – Thou Blind Fool Love, What Dost Thou to Mine Eyes Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXXXVI – If Thy Soul Check Thee That I Come so Near 1:07

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXXXVI – If Thy Soul Check Thee That I Come so Near Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXXXV – Whoever Hath Her Wish, Thou Hast Thy Will 1:19

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXXXV – Whoever Hath Her Wish, Thou Hast Thy Will Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXXXIV – So Now I Have Confessed That He Is Thine 1:16

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXXXIV – So Now I Have Confessed That He Is Thine Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Saturday’s Sonnet – Episode 22: Nothing Like the Sun 26:08

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In the twenty-second Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael finds the poet taking an unorthodox approach to the subtle art of paying compliments as we encounter the Dark Lady in a poem startling for its frankness: Sonnet 130… Sebastian is the writer of The Sonneteer, a play ‘on passion, power and possession’, which features…

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXXXIII – Beshrew That Heart That Makes My Heart to Groan 1:13

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXXXIII – Beshrew That Heart That Makes My Heart to Groan Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXXXII – Thine Eyes I Love, and They, as Pitying Me 1:06

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXXXII – Thine Eyes I Love, and They, as Pitying Me Watch on YouTube More at thesonneter.info #Shakespeare400

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: CXXXI – Thou Art as Tyrranous, So as Thou Art 1:10

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnets Read by Sebastian Michael: CXXXI – Thou Art as Tyrranous, So as Thou Art Watch on YouTube More at thesonneteer.info #Shakespeare400