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'Cynicism is the real enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place'
Billy Bragg on cynicism
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- Billy performs Brickbat
- The importance of the 大象传媒
- 'Who does she think she is, the Queen of England?!'
- Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
- Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Bront毛: A Life
- Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips
- Why are Germans more welcoming to migrants?
- Edmund de Waal: The fabled city of porcelain
- Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise
- Susan Calman on growing up gay
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- Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war
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