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Baaba Maal - Traveller
The closing track in the Senegalese star's set.
- Baaba Maal - Traveller
- The Old Barbed Wire
- Why I wrote Private Peaceful
- On becoming a writer
- Russell T Davies talks about diversity in his A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
- Marlon James reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
- Susan Calman on growing up gay
- Baaba Maal - Lampenda
- Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
- Edna O'Brien on being invited to the White House for dinner
- The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
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