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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- A traumatic experience on the BAFTA red carpet
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake's conceptions of Hamlet
- Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
- Thomas Keneally on the cruelty of writing
- Andrew Davies on the cinematic writing of Tolstoy
- Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs
- Letter to My Daughter
- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Bront毛: A Life
- Sam Mendes: It's time for a new James Bond director
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- Jeanette Winterson: Shakespeare 400
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- Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie, Valeria Luiselli and Juan Gabriel Vasquez
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- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis