My guest today is the theatre director Indiana Lown-Collins. Indiana is from Spain and moved to the UK later in life. She cut her teeth at the Guildford Shakespeare Company before becoming Resident Associate Director at Shakespeare's Globe. She is currently directing Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe, a production that fuses Shakespeare's language with flamenco, drawing on her own Spanish heritage. For once, thanks to my editor, this podcast is relevant to current affairs as LLL is still on! Run to see it if you haven’t yet.

We recorded this in a cavernous room tucked away at the Globe, with Indiana's lovely dog Alma keeping us company throughout. We talk about how Shakespeare found her rather than the other way around, growing up in Spain, disability and access in the arts, the magic of that circular playhouse, and how Shakespeare ...