Dame Judi Dench is perhaps our greatest Shakespearean actor. In Shakespeare, My Family and Me, the Oscar winning star turns history detective to solve a great mystery in her family’s past. Did one of her ancestors actually meet her hero, William Shakespeare? Having played nearly every key female part in the Bard’s canon, Dame Judi will look back on the special place the words and worlds of Shakespeare have had throughout her luminous career on stage and screen. Dame Judi Dench says: “It has been such an adventure to explore the possibility that an ancestor of mine might just have got within touching distance of my hero William Shakespeare.