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The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
RSC artistic director Gregory Doran on how changing words can be compunctious
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- Lionel Shriver on 'the outrageous gamble of having a child'
- Ben Miller remembers Professor Brian Cox in a rage
- Thomas Keneally on the genesis of Napoleon’s Last Island
- Andrew Davies on the cinematic writing of Tolstoy
- Russell T Davies talks about diversity in his A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Schama Chameleon
- Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
- Steve Silberman: ‘There has been no autism tsunami’
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