Is Lady Macbeth the greatest female character that Shakespeare ever created? How do you represent the witches? Why do we see Lady Macduff only briefly? Director Polly Findlay and Oxford academic Emma Smith join Ben Lawrence to discuss the witches in Macbeth. Discover more at www.telegraph.co.uk and www.rsc.org.uk/podcasts Music licensed at www.epidemicsound.com  

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A series of podcasts in which we'll go behind the scenes of brand new productions from the RSC and discuss the themes behind the plays of the world's greatest ever writer.