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The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
RSC artistic director Gregory Doran on how changing words can be compunctious
- The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake's conceptions of Hamlet
- Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
- Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
- Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
- Sam Mendes on Steven Spielberg
- Peter Carey: ‘Information and art are different things’
- Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire
- Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
- Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips
- The Habit of Light by Gillian Clarke
- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
- Russell T Davies on young women and suicide
- Jeanette Winterson explains why she chose The Winter’s Tale as her Shakespeare ‘cover version’
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