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Alex Salmond: How the Scottish referendum empowered people
Helena Kennedy asks the MP to explain an allusion to a Ridley Scott film in his book.
- Alex Salmond: How the Scottish referendum empowered people
- Andrew O'Hagan on drawing inspiration from life for The Illuminations
- Andrew O'Hagan reads a passage about a firefight in Helmand Province
- Nigel Kennedy on The Four Seasons
- Silk, sass and shimmer: William Banks-Blaney on Coco Chanel
- Tenor Ian Bostridge on inspirational pictures and hurdy-gurdy music
- Marcus Brigstocke's poem on climate change
- Sandi Toksvig on the great women of history
- Mary Portas on growing up on the high street
- Courrèges of his convictions: William Banks-Blaney on the French Space Age designer
- Yuval Noah Harari: Why money is the most successful story ever told
- Celebrating difference: Andrew Solomon on parents of exceptional children
- Cressida Cowell on maps and the writer's imagination
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- Cressida Cowell
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- Mary Portas
- Meera Syal
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- Vikram Seth
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