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O for a muse of fire
How Henry V's opening line hooked a nine-year-old Simon Schama.
- O for a muse of fire
- Growing up gay
- Billy Bragg on the importance of the 大象传媒
- Being Lear
- Edna O'Brien on being invited to the White House for dinner
- Billy Bragg: 'Who does she think she is, the Queen of England?!'
- Writer Debbie Horsfield on the financial challenges of making a series like Poldark
- 'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
- Russell T Davies admits to a surprise collaboration on the A Midsummer Night's Dream script
- Julian Clary and illustrator David Roberts on drawing a hyena
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
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- Andrew Davies
- Baaba Maal
- Ben Miller
- Billy Bragg
- Caitlin Moran
- Chris Hoy
- Chris Packham
- Claire Harman
- David Gilmour and Polly Samson
- David Mitchell
- Edmund de Waal
- Edna O'Brien
- Eleanor Tomlinson, Karen Thrussell and Debbie Horsfield
- Fay Weldon
- George Monbiot
- Germaine Greer
- Gregory Doran
- Imtiaz Dharker and Gillian Clarke
- James Shapiro
- Jeanette Winterson on The Gap of Time
- Jeanette Winterson: Shakespeare 400
- Joan Bakewell
- Jonathan Bate
- Jonathan Dimbleby
- Julian Clary and David Roberts
- Lionel Shriver
- Malorie Blackman
- Marlon James
- Maxine Peake and Paapa Essiedu
- Michael Morpurgo
- Michael Palin
- Neil MacGregor and Richard J Evans
- Paul Mason
- Peter Carey
- Ruby Wax
- Russell T Davies and Maxine Peake
- Salman Rushdie
- Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie, Valeria Luiselli and Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- Sam Mendes
- Sarah Millican and Hannah Dunleavy
- Simon Schama
- Stephen Frears
- Steve Silberman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis