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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'
- On the girl in red
- On Steven Spielberg
- On Oskar Schindler
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
- Schama Chameleon
- Yanis Varoufakis on Margaret Thatcher
- Caitlin Moran: 'Social media is like being in the pub on a Friday night'
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Joan Bakewell reads from her memoir, Stop the Clocks
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