Peter Ackroyd & Edmund Morris

It's Shakespeare-and-Beethoven day here on THE BOOKCAST, as we talk with the authors of new biographies of these two giants of the arts. Peter Ackroyd has written Shakespeare: The Biography, a volume which will totally immerse you in the London that Shakespeare knew. We'll talk with Peter Ackroyd in a few minutes, but first, Edmund Morris captures and explains the genius of Ludwig van Beethoven, in his contribution to the "Eminent Lives" series, called Beethoven: The Universal Composer.