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Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction
A celebration of reading and books from Toksvig at the Hay Library Lecture.
Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction- Germaine Greer: If the English are sane it's because their national playwright is Shakespeare
- Elderly sex: Germaine Greer on the romance between Cleopatra and Antony
- Germaine Greer: Lady Macbeth is an emptyhead
- Andrew O'Hagan reads a passage about a firefight in Helmand Province
- Karen Armstrong: Freedom was only for selected privileged Europeans
- William Banks-Blaney on Elizabeth Taylor at Studio 54
- Pippa Harris: Some of our younger crew hadn't realised it was illegal to be gay
- Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty
- Celia Imrie on the importance of being bored
- David Mitchell: I'm a fake novelist
- James Rhodes on the first time he met Stephen Fry
- Will Smith on working with Armando Iannucci
- Helen Macdonald: I started to dream of goshawks
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