The programmes have each been very different, and on Tuesday, it’s David Tennant’s turn to talk about the gloomy Dane. Shakespeare Uncovered has been a fascinating mix, including contributions from Joely Richardson along with her mother Vanessa Redgrave looking at Shakespeare’s women, Ethan Hawke on Macbeth, Trevor Nunn on The Tempest, Derek Jacobi on Richard II and Jeremy Irons on the Henry IV and Henry V plays. So here’s your warning: on Saturday evening, the culmination of the series, Henry V begins at 8pm. I was listening in on #hollowcrown on Twitter on Saturday and it was clear from people’s tweets that many hadn’t got that message. The second two in the series have been scheduled for 8pm, an hour earlier. The first two parts of The Hollow Crown were meant to be on at 9pm, but one was delayed by the tennis at Wimbledon.

I mention this particularly because, with all the Shakespeare, not to mention all the sport, this summer the BBC’s scheduling has been pretty erratic.

Simon Russell Beale is having quite a Shakespeare summer himself having just played Falstaff in the BBC’s The Hollow Crown series and is now beginning to play Shakespeare’s least-known leading man, Timon of Athens, at the National Theatre. Not only does it feature David Tennant, whose own Hamlet for the RSC in 2008 was a massive hit, but he takes the opportunity to speak to other notable recent Hamlets Jude Law, Simon Russell Beale and Ben Whishaw. Tucked away on the BBC2 TV schedule at 11.20 on Tuesday evening is the last of the Shakespeare Uncovered series, David Tennant on Hamlet.

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