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The Habit of Light by Gillian Clarke
The poet's sonnet celebrating her aspirational mother's obsession with department stores.
- The Habit of Light by Gillian Clarke
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- Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war
- Andrew Davies on the cinematic writing of Tolstoy
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- Russell T Davies on young women and suicide
- Writer Debbie Horsfield on the financial challenges of making a series like Poldark
- Peter Carey: ‘Information and art are different things’
- Maxine Peake discusses her Shakespeare acting past
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