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Was it a member of the aristocracy that penned Shakespeare's plays?
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- Eleanor Tomlinson: 'You don't have a social life when you film Poldark'
- Billy Bragg: 'Who does she think she is, the Queen of England?!'
- Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer
- Marlon James reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Yanis Varoufakis on Margaret Thatcher
- Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
- Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Jeanette Winterson explains why she chose The Winter’s Tale as her Shakespeare ‘cover version’
- Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs
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