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Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
Discover the two big names that helped push the actors in their careers
Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
- Billy Bragg performs Brickbat
- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
- Thomas Keneally on Steven Spielberg
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield: 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
- Eleanor Tomlinson: 'You don't have a social life when you film Poldark'
- Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'
- 'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
- Gillian Clarke's Running away to the Sea
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