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Schama Chameleon
The historian has a brief turn at cabaret to help us brush up our Shakespeare
Schama Chameleon- O for a muse of fire
- Much ado about characters
- Marlon James: Full session
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Bront毛: A Life
- David Roberts' drawing tips
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
- David Mitchell: 'The best of the Star Treks are art'
- Julian Clary and illustrator David Roberts on drawing a hyena
- Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise
- James Shapiro discusses Shakespeare's productivity
- Michael Palin: How we named Monty Python
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