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Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
Bard expert Jonathan Bate explains why the magical world appears in Shakespeare's plays.
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- Thomas Keneally on the genesis of Napoleon’s Last Island
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- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
- Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
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- Chris Hoy
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- David Mitchell
- Edmund de Waal
- Edna O'Brien
- Eleanor Tomlinson, Karen Thrussell and Debbie Horsfield
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- 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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- Jonathan Dimbleby
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- Lionel Shriver
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- Marlon James
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- Michael Morpurgo
- Michael Palin
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- Ruby Wax
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- Salman Rushdie
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- Simon Schama
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- Steve Silberman
- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
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