p 　　Alan Yentob travels to the ghetto in Venice with award-winning novelist Howard Jacobson as he embarks on a retelling of Shakespeare 三九 s most performed play, The Merchant of Venice Through a series of lively - often fiery - interviews, they examine the charge of anti-Semitism against Shakespeare, whose character Shylock remains one of the most odious and divisive fictional Jews in history br 　　How did the moneylender from Venice become such a useful propaganda tool in Nazi Germany And how much of a liberty will Jacobson be taking when he uproots the action to modern-day Alderley Edge, and audaciously reinterprets the infamous 三九 pound of flesh 三九 br 　　Interviewees include Antony Sher, Anthony Julius and Stephen Greenblatt p