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Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
Germaine Greer makes a bold claim about the Bard's fame in his lifetime.
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips
- Michael Palin on growing a moustache for new movies
- Thomas Keneally on Steven Spielberg
- The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Stephen Frears on Muhammad Ali
- Russell T Davies admits to a surprise collaboration on the A Midsummer Night's Dream script
- Thomas Keneally on the cruelty of writing
- Was it a member of the aristocracy that penned Shakespeare's plays?
- Caitlin Moran reads from her latest book Moranifesto
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- David Mitchell
- Edmund de Waal
- Edna O'Brien
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- James Shapiro
- Jeanette Winterson on The Gap of Time
- Jeanette Winterson: Shakespeare 400
- Joan Bakewell
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- Lionel Shriver
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- Paul Mason
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- Salman Rushdie
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- Simon Schama
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- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis