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'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
Gregory Doran's issues with Shakespeare's famous play.
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
- The fabled city of porcelain
- Julian Clary and David Roberts: Drawing by committee
- David Gilmour on the unique sound of Rattle That Lock
- Russell T Davies on young women and suicide
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Stephen Frears on Muhammad Ali
- The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
- Andrew Davies on the cinematic writing of Tolstoy
- Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs
- Edna O'Brien on being invited to the White House for dinner
- Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer
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