In the twelfth Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael looks back over the first 77 Sonnets and recounts the story so far, highlighting the most telling moments and identifying what we know for certain, what we can consider to be very likely and what we may simply want to be aware of as this fascinating tale unfolds...

In the eleventh Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael discovers a surprising revelation about Shakespeare's young lover in Sonnet 73: one of the most hauntingly beautiful poems in the entire canon. 

In the tenth Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael empathises with William Shakespeare, as the poet goes on an epic rant about the ills of the world, which turn out to be pretty much the same four hundred years ago as they are now. 

​In the ninth Episode of his weekly podcast and video blog, Sebastian Michael charts the path that leads to the brutally honest self-assessment of Sonnet 62, in which Shakespeare stands before us and his young lover, bare.