The Essay: Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe for BBC Radio 3

Airing over two weeks from Zinc Audio, and produced by Melissa FitzGerald, is The Essay: Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe.

This 10-part series, presented by historian Jerry Brotton, explores the life and work of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe. Notorious for his violent death in a brawl in Deptford on the banks of the Thames, there’s perennial interest in Marlowe’s writing, his sexuality, his relationship with Shakespeare, the suspicion that he was a spy and the big “what-if” he had lived longer and produced even greater work.

The first episode airs on Monday 20th April at 9:45pm on BBC Radio 3. Listen here.