Sir Derek Jacobi is an icon of Stage and Screen ... known for his work at the Royal National Theatre, has a BAFTA, Olivier, Emmy, Screen Guild and Tony Award winner and to top it all off Derek was given a Knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II.  Not bad for a boy who grew up in Essex, the son of a corner shop owner and a secretary. From Leytonstone and the Leyton Players to Hamlet at Edinburgh Fringe and a scholarship to Cambridge.

With peers such as Ian McKellen and Trevor Nunn and as one of the founding members of the National Theatre and invited to be a member of the Birmingham Rep, Derek is an enormous talent with Shakespeare running through his blood.

Six decades and so many favourites ... such as ‘I, Claudius’, ‘Gladiator I’, ‘Gladiator II’, ‘Last Tango in Halifax’, ‘The Crown’, ‘The Day of the Jackal’, ‘Nanny McPhee’, ‘Gosford Park’, The Kings Speech’ and much in between.

His Shakespeare work is vast with notable performances in Hamlet and Othello to name a few. And not to forget ... his audio book work as the narrator for the BBC children's series ‘In the Night Garden’. An incredible body of work.

Richard Clifford actor and producer starred in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1993) and ‘Loves Labours Lost’, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Taken part in the MA course at Brunel University - The Shakespeare Authorship Question and has been a director at the Folger for 20 years to study the collection and look at the “Oxford Geneva” bible.

With Richard in the driving seat for the evening, there will be an incredible of insight, joy of Shakespeare and so much more as he is also Derek’s partner since the 1970’s.