Front Row | Front Row reviews 1623, to mark the anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

Duration: 41'33''

Synopsis

1623 Review Show, presented by Tom Sutcliffe. Front Row's panel of guests make a change from their usual review of the week's arts and instead go back in time and review the music, poems and plays from the year that the First Folio was published.

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