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Sam Mendes on Judi Dench
The director recalls the first time he worked with the actress, when he was 24.
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- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
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- Baaba Maal - Traveller
- Michael Palin on growing a moustache for new movies
- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Stephen Frears on the Oscars diversity row
- Eleanor Tomlinson: 'You don't have a social life when you film Poldark'
- Billy Bragg: 'Who does she think she is, the Queen of England?!'
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- George Monbiot on the definition of neoliberalism
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