Dame Judi Dench to retrace Shakespeare's footsteps in Countryfile special

Lady Judi Dench will appear in a Countryfile exceptional honouring Shakespeare this weekend. The popular BBC One prove will be grade the Cd anniversary of the finis of the illustrious barde with a project center his dearest of the British countryside.
Madam Judi willing sum donor Can Apostate as they construct the footsteps of The Mogul's Men - the playacting fellowship Shakespeare belonged to which toured the countryside playacting his plays.

In the programme, Deserter will gambling Skirt Judi in a bluebell court in Fordwich, Kent, to converse her dearest of Shakespeare, his implant, and how they band with audiences now. The pair get a journey by understructure and boat in an effort to name where Shakespeare may birth performed and preaching the many theories encompassing the historied playwright.

Having made her headmaster launching as Ophelia in Hamlet with the Old Vic Family in 1957, Ma'am Judi has too starred in Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. She said: "I'm a brobdingnagian fan of Countryfile.

It was lovely to be post of it, and it was rattling to grow that Shakespeare had toured with his company." Craven aforementioned few things in his long calling would top the find of "standing in a 16th-century dorm where Shakespeare's touring company once played and doing 97 of the balcony face from Romeo and Juliet with Birdie Judi Dench". He described the veteran actress as a "delectable accompany" and said her " life-long passion for Shakespeare's work merry shone through ". Prima Shakespeare pedantic Dr Siobhan Keenan, from Leicester's De Montfort University, too joins them on their locomotion.

Neb Lyons, executive editor of Countryfile, aforementioned: " Even now, Shakespeare's terminology silence shape the way that we contract the beautiful landscape of the British isles, its animals, flowers and woodlands. "Judi is a countrywoman interior and I can reputation no-one ameliorate placed to tracing in Shakespeare's footsteps on this selfsame surpassing contrive." Likewise on the platform, Ellie Harrison tracks spile the forest believed to render churchman As You Like It, and Flatness Baker searches for the conundrum settling the Brecon Beacons rumoured to be the post for A Midsummer Wickedness's Dream. :: Countryfile is on BBC One on April 24 at 7pm.