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Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
The author touches on how deep Shakespeare's influence has become
- Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
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- Billy Bragg performs Brickbat
- Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
- Joan Bakewell reads from her memoir, Stop the Clocks
- Shakespeare and the reformation
- Stephen Frears on the Oscars diversity row
- Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips
- Edna O'Brien on being invited to the White House for dinner
- Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
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