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Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
Germaine Greer makes a bold claim about the Bard's fame in his lifetime.
Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite- 'Les Mis茅rables needs a champion'
- The cinematic writing of Tolstoy
- Peter Carey: 鈥業nformation and art are different things鈥�
- Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
- Malorie Blackman's life lesson
- Thomas Keneally on the genesis of Napoleon鈥檚 Last Island
- Eleanor Tomlinson: 'You don't have a social life when you film Poldark'
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Bront毛: A Life
- Was it a member of the aristocracy that penned Shakespeare's plays?
- David Gilmour on the unique sound of Rattle That Lock
- A future President tells Americans the dollar has collapsed in Lionel Shriver's novel
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
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- 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
- Imtiaz Dharker and Gillian Clarke
- 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