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Hear Me Out
Widely available, episodes weekly
This chatty theatre podcast from actor Lucy Eaton gives you a snippet of multiple stars’ dramatic talent. They each pick a favourite speech, then act it out, amid a personal chat that gives it a feel of Desert Island Discs for the stage. The first episode of the latest series hears Mark Gatiss perform Hamlet’s “yearning” and “angry” “speak the speech” soliloquy, as used in Jack Thorne’s The Motive and the Cue. Alexi Duggins
