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Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire
The author sings a moving song from Oh What A Lovely War.
- Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire
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- James reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Russell T Davies talks about diversity in his A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much ado about characters
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Russell T Davies admits to a surprise collaboration on the A Midsummer Night's Dream script
- Lionel Shriver on 'the outrageous gamble of having a child'
- Juliet not Romeo
- Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'
- Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise
- Claire Harman: 鈥業鈥檝e made Charlotte Bront毛鈥檚 hair move鈥
- Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
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