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Peter Carey: Why Ned Kelly was a folk hero in Australia
How a criminal became a "gentleman' bank robber" and "could have been a general".
- Peter Carey: Why Ned Kelly was a folk hero in Australia
- Don't take another writing course, just write and free your subconscious
- The genesis of Napoleon’s Last Island
- Salman Rushdie on realism
- Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
- Edna O'Brien on being invited to the White House for dinner
- Imtiaz Dharker's In Wales, wanting to be Italian
- Billy Bragg: 'Cynicism is the real enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place'
- Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Imtiaz Dharkar's The Trick
- Jeanette Winterson explains why she chose The Winter’s Tale as her Shakespeare ‘cover version’
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- Claire Harman
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- David Mitchell
- Edmund de Waal
- Edna O'Brien
- Eleanor Tomlinson, Karen Thrussell and Debbie Horsfield
- Fay Weldon
- George Monbiot
- Germaine Greer
- Gregory Doran
- Imtiaz Dharker and Gillian Clarke
- James Shapiro
- Jeanette Winterson on The Gap of Time
- Jeanette Winterson: Shakespeare 400
- Joan Bakewell
- Jonathan Bate
- Jonathan Dimbleby
- Julian Clary and David Roberts
- Lionel Shriver
- Malorie Blackman
- Marlon James
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- Michael Morpurgo
- Michael Palin
- Neil MacGregor and Richard J Evans
- Paul Mason
- Peter Carey
- Ruby Wax
- Russell T Davies and Maxine Peake
- Salman Rushdie
- Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie, Valeria Luiselli and Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- Sam Mendes
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- Simon Schama
- Stephen Frears
- Steve Silberman
- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis