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Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
Discover the two big names that helped push the actors in their careers
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
- The challenges of playing Demelza
- 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- The difficulties of making Poldark on a budget
- The Habit of Light by Gillian Clarke
- Thomas Keneally on Oskar Schindler
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Susan Calman on growing up gay
- Being Lear
- Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
- Russell T Davies on young women and suicide
- Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
- Sarah Millican on her BAFTA red carpet experience
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
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