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Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
Germaine Greer makes a bold claim about the Bard's fame in his lifetime.
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
- The author explains why she chose The Winter鈥檚 Tale as her Shakespeare 鈥榗over version鈥
- Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- A future President tells Americans the dollar has collapsed in Lionel Shriver's novel
- Caitlin Moran: 'Social media is like being in the pub on a Friday night'
- Edmund de Waal: The fabled city of porcelain
- Eleanor Tomlinson: 'You don't have a social life when you film Poldark'
- Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
- Malorie Blackman's life lesson
- Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
- Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire
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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: 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
- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis