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Was it a member of the aristocracy that penned Shakespeare's plays?
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- Was it a member of the aristocracy that penned Shakespeare's plays?
- 'The best of the Star Treks are art'
- Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs
- Sam Mendes: It's time for a new James Bond director
- Michael Palin on growing a moustache for new movies
- Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield: 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- Sam Mendes on Judi Dench
- Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
- Billy Bragg: 'Cynicism is the real enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place'
- Shakespeare and the reformation
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- A future President tells Americans the dollar has collapsed in Lionel Shriver's novel
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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
- 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
- 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