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Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
Germaine Greer makes a bold claim about the Bard's fame in his lifetime.
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
- Letter to My Daughter
- Caitlin reads from her latest book Moranifesto
- 'Social media is like being in the pub on a Friday night'
- Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
- David Gilmour on the unique sound of Rattle That Lock
- Billy Bragg: 'Who does she think she is, the Queen of England?!'
- Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips
- Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs
- James Shapiro on his own Shakespeare experiences
- Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
- Steve Silberman: ‘There has been no autism tsunami’
- Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer
- Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise
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- Andrew Davies
- Baaba Maal
- Ben Miller
- Billy Bragg
- Chris Hoy
- Chris Packham
- Claire Harman
- David Gilmour and Polly Samson
- David Mitchell
- Edmund de Waal
- Edna O'Brien
- Eleanor Tomlinson, Karen Thrussell and Debbie Horsfield
- Fay Weldon
- George Monbiot
- Germaine Greer
- Gregory Doran
- Imtiaz Dharker and Gillian Clarke
- James Shapiro
- Jeanette Winterson on The Gap of Time
- Jeanette Winterson: Shakespeare 400
- Joan Bakewell
- Jonathan Bate
- Jonathan Dimbleby
- Julian Clary and David Roberts
- Lionel Shriver
- Malorie Blackman
- Marlon James
- Maxine Peake and Paapa Essiedu
- Michael Morpurgo
- Michael Palin
- Neil MacGregor and Richard J Evans
- Paul Mason
- Peter Carey
- Ruby Wax
- Russell T Davies and Maxine Peake
- Salman Rushdie
- Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie, Valeria Luiselli and Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- Sam Mendes
- Sarah Millican and Hannah Dunleavy
- Simon Schama
- Stephen Frears
- Steve Silberman
- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis