蜜芽传媒

Three witches boil up trouble for the would-be king in their cauldron on the heath.

This is one of the most famous and familiar dramatic images from Shakespeare's Macbeth.

But the witches didn't exist in the real Macbeth's time - so how and why did they become part of the myth?

Liam Brennan stars as Macbeth.

With members of The National Theatre of Scotland:

Fiona Watson
Alex Woolf
David Munro
Nick Aitchison
Molly Rorke

Producer: Pennie Latin

First broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 in August 2007.