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'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
Gregory Doran's issues with Shakespeare's famous play.
'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'- Gillian Clarke's Running away to the Sea
- Imtiaz Dharker's In Wales, wanting to be Italian
- Imtiaz Dharkar's The Trick
- The Habit of Light by Gillian Clarke
- Thomas Keneally on Steven Spielberg
- O for a muse of fire
- Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
- Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
- Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
- Thomas Keneally on the genesis of Napoleon’s Last Island
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
- Billy Bragg: 'Cynicism is the real enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place'
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Act Videos
- 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
- 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