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Kim and Alice are putting on their terrible disguises and having so much fun with this week's pick, the late '90s actor buffet that is Shakespeare in Love. We're talking guyliner, literary Easter eggs and what makes this very smart movie so very dumb.

Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle

Editor: Keith Nagle

Producer: Helen Hamilton

Sources

• https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-life/
• https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/william-shakespeare/william-shakespeare-biography/
• https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/apr/23/shakespeare-did-not-leave-his-wife-anne-in-stratford-letter-fragment-suggests
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ygregz439o#:~:text=However%2C%20examination%20of%20a%20fragment,of%20Bristol's%20Department%20of%20English
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37750558
• https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/oct/23/christopher-marlowe-credited-as-one-of-shakespeares-co-writers
• https://shakespeareanauthorshiptrust.org/marlowe
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlovian_theory_of_Shakespeare_authorship

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