Sam and Natalia visit London's West End to watch BORN WITH TEETH.

BORN WITH TEETH is a play written by Liz Duffy Adams about the relationship between playwrights Christopher Marlowe (Ncuti Gatwa) and William Shakespeare (Edward Bluemel). Written in 2022, the play recently had its British premiere at the Wyndham's Theatre in London.

Sam and Natalia sit down to watch Ncuti Gat- wait, no, sorry, hang on, there's been a last-minute casting change...

Sam and Natalia sit down to watch Justice Ritchie and Edward Bluemel portray the two titanic literary forces of Elizabethan England.

Topics of conversation include the price of theatre tickets, DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Eurocentrism, understudies, Mozart and Salieri, differing expectations, the craft of writing, Marlowe's career as a spy, Shakespeare's biography, Bill Bryson, the length of modern plays, Eton, Rachel Zegler as Evita, CITIZEN KANE, and whether Shakespeare truly is the greatest writer of all time.

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‘Learning British: A Film and TV Podcast’ (or just ‘Learning British’) is a weekly show hosted by Sam Brown, a born-and-bred Brit, and Natalia Brammen, a Polish immigrant living in the UK.

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