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Cressida Cowell on maps and the writer's imagination
How imaginary maps were used by Stanley Kubrick and RL Stevenson, and by Cowell herself.
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- Simon Schama on the ongoing problems faced by the Jewish people
- Ben & David Crystal's A-Z of Shakespeare
- Jon Ronson: Can I interview you about your special brain anomaly?
- Courrèges of his convictions: William Banks-Blaney on the French Space Age designer
- Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty
- Sandi Toksvig: My father was fantastically famous
- Sheila Hancock on idealism
- How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood
- Sheila Hancock on the importance of the arts
- Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction
- Alex Salmond on joining the SNP while at university
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