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Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
Discover the two big names that helped push the actors in their careers
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
- James Shapiro on his own Shakespeare experiences
- James Shapiro discusses Shakespeare's productivity
- Sarah Millican on her BAFTA red carpet experience
- Stephen Frears on Muhammad Ali
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Baaba Maal - Lampenda
- Joan Bakewell reads from her memoir, Stop the Clocks
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
- Malorie Blackman's life lesson
- Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
- Andrew Davies: 'Les Misérables needs a champion'
- Letter to My Daughter
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