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Lionel Shriver on 'the outrageous gamble of having a child'
The author of We Need to Talk about Kevin talks about the complexities of parenthood.
- Lionel Shriver on 'the outrageous gamble of having a child'
- The author explains why she chose The Winter鈥檚 Tale as her Shakespeare 鈥榗over version鈥
- Was it a member of the aristocracy that penned Shakespeare's plays?
- Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Yanis Varoufakis on Margaret Thatcher
- Peter Carey: A reading from Amnesia
- Billy Bragg performs Brickbat
- Andrew Davies on the cinematic writing of Tolstoy
- Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield: 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- Julian Clary and illustrator David Roberts on drawing a hyena
- Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
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