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Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
The audiences' connection was what the actress considered key to her performance
Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet- 'The outrageous gamble of having a child'
- Why Donald Trump wouldn’t work as a fictional character
- Reading: A future President tells Americans the dollar has collapsed
- Thomas Keneally on the genesis of Napoleon’s Last Island
- Malorie Blackman's life lesson
- Baaba Maal - Lampenda
- Letter to My Daughter
- Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
- Sam Mendes: It's time for a new James Bond director
- Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
- Russell T Davies talks about diversity in his A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
- Eleanor Tomlinson: 'You don't have a social life when you film Poldark'
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- Andrew Davies
- Baaba Maal
- Ben Miller
- Billy Bragg
- Caitlin Moran
- 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
- 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