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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
- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Russell T Davies on young women and suicide
- Maxine Peake discusses her Shakespeare acting past
- Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips
- Russell T Davies talks about diversity in his A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Russell T Davies admits to a surprise collaboration on the A Midsummer Night's Dream script
- Yanis Varoufakis on Brexit
- Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Michael Palin on growing a moustache for new movies
- Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
- Andrew Davies on the cinematic writing of Tolstoy
- Billy Bragg: 'Cynicism is the real enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place'
- Lionel Shriver on 'the outrageous gamble of having a child'
- Edmund de Waal: The fabled city of porcelain
- The Habit of Light by Gillian Clarke
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Act Videos
- 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 on The Gap of Time
- 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
- 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