In this episode, doyenne of the South African stage Fiona Ramsay sits down with TCC Director Chris Thurman as she prepares to perform in Blonde Poison at the Drama Factory. They talk about the role of Stella in Blonde Poison (for which Ramsay earned a Fleur du Cap award) and then get onto matters Shakespearean ... from Ramsay's recent appearance as Elizabeth / Caesar in Abrahamse Meyer Productions' Julius Caesar to her work with students in Wits University's Theatre and Performance programme.

Picking up where we left off at the end of Part One, this episode explores recent and ongoing creative practice involving translations of Shakespeare's plays and poems into isiZulu. Listen to extracts of performances by Anelisa Phewa, Michael Mazibuko and other translators and theatre makers. Along the way there is music, politics, history and more!

Image: Anelisa Phewa as Sir Thomas More in SPEAK ME A SPEECH (dir. Victor van Aswegen)

We're back ... welcome to Season 2 of Shake the Sword! This new season kicks off with a pair of episodes on Shakespeare translations into isiZulu, the most widely-spoken home language in South Africa. In part one, we find out more about K.E. Masinga's Zulu translations, produced as radio plays in the "Sophiatown era" of the 1950s. Then we turn our attention to Welcome Msomi's uMabatha, the famous "Zulu Macbeth". The episode finishes with recent interpretations of speeches from uMabatha - looking ahead to part 2, which will focus on contemporary translations and performances in isiZulu.