Shakespeare, My Family And Me

In Shakespeare, My Family and Me, Oscar winning star Dame Judi Dench turns history detective to solve a great mystery in her family’s past. Did one of her ancestors actually meet her hero, William Shakespeare?

This 1x60’ film will see Dame Judi follow the clues buried deep in the Danish archives and find out if her eight times great-grandfather may have met Shakespeare in 1606, the year he wrote three of his greatest plays, plague returned to England and Londoners were reeling from the Gunpowder Plot.

Having played nearly every key female part in the Bard’s canon, Dame Judi will look back on the special place the words and worlds of Shakespeare have had throughout her luminous career on stage and screen.