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Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire
The author sings a moving song from Oh What A Lovely War.
- Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire
- The effect of John Donne's poetry on her young friends' courting habits
- Marlon James: Full session
- Eleanor Tomlinson: 'You don't have a social life when you film Poldark'
- Lionel Shriver: Why Donald Trump wouldn’t work as a fictional character
- Thomas Keneally on the cruelty of writing
- David Roberts' drawing tips
- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Julian Clary and illustrator David Roberts on drawing a hyena
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
- Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield: 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
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