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Peter Carey: Why Ned Kelly was a folk hero in Australia
How a criminal became a "gentleman' bank robber" and "could have been a general".
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- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
- David Roberts' drawing tips
- Ben Miller remembers Professor Brian Cox in a rage
- Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Salman Rushdie on realism
- Thomas Keneally on Oskar Schindler
- Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield: 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- Edna O'Brien on The Mothers of Srebrenica
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- Edmund de Waal
- Edna O'Brien
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- 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
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- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis