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en clair podcast: forensic linguistics and more
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A podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries, spy codes, criminal slang, fake news, lie-detection, rare book heists and more | @drclaireh.bsky.social | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/enclair
Right...?
April 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
S02E08: Slowburn Shakespeare (6/6) - The Stars Are Fire

RATING: Universal

This final episode looks at one of the highest profile efforts to set down an authoritative answer - and all the questions it raised. Even Shakespeare could not have penned this level of drama.

And that's it!
April 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
S02E07: Slowburn Shakespeare (5/6) - The Wings Wherewith We Fly

RATING: Universal

Part 5 pitches computational linguists against forensic linguists in an effort to determine whether either side can work out who wrote Shakespeare... or if they're going to be even more dramatic than the bard.
April 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
S02E06: Slowburn Shakespeare (4/6) - Rich Man, Poor Man, Shakespearean Guy

RATING: Universal

Part 4 considers our last two alternatives - the spy who was left out in the cold and the tiger-wrestling throne dodger, and weighs up the evidence for each.
April 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
S02E05: Slowburn Shakespeare (3/6) - Cut-out, Cipher, Monster, Spy

RATING: Universal

Part 3 considers our first three alternatives - the seven Shakespeares in a trenchcoat, the Queen's Counsel, and the monstrous nobleman, and weighs up the evidence for each.
April 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
S02E04: Slowburn Shakespeare (2/6) - The Shakeslayers

RATING: Universal

Part 2 explores the five major reasons why we doubt that Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him, and explores what might happen if someone has a really good go at killing him off.
April 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
S02E03: Slowburn Shakespeare (1/6) - Who Wrote Shakespeare?

RATING: Universal

Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con?

Part 1 of this slowburn mini-series looks at the question, and the controversy around it. Bad jokes happen. I'm not sorry.
April 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM