Upstart Crow

BBC Two England

10:00 PM to 10:30 PM

Monday 30 June

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Will is off to Stratford to get some serious writing done, but when Simon Hunt, his terrifying old schoolteacher, invites himself to stay, Will is unable to say no even though his presence stirs up some pretty awful memories of the classroom. Meanwhile, Marlowe and Greene are also up in Warwickshire hunting for a Roman Catholic spy, leaving Will to keep himself and his own family safe from being burned at the stake for heresy, while simultaneously coming up with a play about any king called Henry