​In the twenty-third Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael re-encounters The Fair Youth as the poet admonishes The Dark Lady for taking his Sweet'st Friend away from him in Sonnet 133.

In the twenty-second Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael finds the poet taking an unorthodox approach to the subtle art of paying compliments as we encounter the Dark Lady in a poem startling for its frankness: Sonnet 130...

​In the twenty-first – special and extended – Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael talks about the possible candidates for The Fair Youth and settles on the one he considers most likely. This by necessity also entails a closer look at the first publication of The Sonnets and an oblique dedication that has puzzled their admirers for centuries... 

​In the twentieth Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael encounters a particularly personal note in Sonnet 126, which marks the end of the Fair Youth sequence and stands out not only for its tenderness, but also for its mysteriously missing final couplet... 

​In the nineteenth Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael looks at Sonnet 116 – one of the most famous, most quoted and most often recited Sonnets of them all – and puts it in the context of the relationship for which, 400 years before equal marriage, it serves as a near public declaration. 

​In the eighteenth Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael hears the poet make a forthright confession to the young man and also affirm his commitment and love him above all others...

​In the seventeenth Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael casts an eye over events in the outside world to examine whether Sonnet 107 can serve to anchor the entire sequence in time with a plausible date. This inescapably also leads to naming a first contender for the young lover...

​In the sixteenth Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael accepts as obvious and obviously reasonable the time frame that is strongly suggested by Sonnet 104 and sees reflected in it also the maturing of the poet's relationship with the young man.