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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'
- The fabled city of porcelain
- Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
- 'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
- Gillian Clarke's Running away to the Sea
- Caitlin Moran reads from her latest book Moranifesto
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'
- Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer
- Russell T Davies admits to a surprise collaboration on the A Midsummer Night's Dream script
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake's conceptions of Hamlet
- Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
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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
- David Mitchell
- 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