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Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
Discover the two big names that helped push the actors in their careers
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
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- James reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn鈥檛 like'
- Much ado about characters
- Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake's conceptions of Hamlet
- Stephen Frears on the Oscars diversity row
- Billy Bragg: 'Who does she think she is, the Queen of England?!'
- Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield: 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
- Claire Harman: 鈥業鈥檝e made Charlotte Bront毛鈥檚 hair move鈥
- Jeanette Winterson explains why she chose The Winter鈥檚 Tale as her Shakespeare 鈥榗over version鈥
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