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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
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- Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
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- Thomas Keneally on the girl in red in Schindler's List
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