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How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood
Executive producer Pippa Harris and writer Heidi Thomas both faced fertility issues.
- How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood
- Jenny Agutter: I saw a beautifully crafted character
- Pippa Harris: Some of our younger crew hadn't realised it was illegal to be gay
- How Miranda Hart joined Call the Midwife
- Women's liberation: William Banks-Blaney on how Coco Chanel used men's underwear
- Antonia Fraser on books, reading and becoming a writer
- Frank Cottrell Boyce's first day at school
- Elderly sex: Germaine Greer on the romance between Cleopatra and Antony
- Sheila Hancock on the importance of the arts
- Ben & David Crystal's A-Z of Shakespeare
- Courr猫ges of his convictions: William Banks-Blaney on the French Space Age designer
- Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel
- Alan Bennett: The poor don't get much of a look in
- Simon Schama on Germany's historical relationship with the Jews
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- Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner
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- Cressida Cowell
- Dan & Peter Snow
- David Mitchell
- Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Germaine Greer: Liberation
- Germaine Greer: Shakespeare's Women
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- Irvine Welsh
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- John Boyne
- Jon Ronson
- Karen Armstrong
- Kazuo Ishiguro
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- Mary Portas
- Meera Syal
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- Neil Gaiman
- Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
- Nigel Kennedy
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- Robert Macfarlane
- Rose Tremain
- Sandi Toksvig
- Sheila Hancock
- Simon Schama
- Stephen Fry
- Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and guests
- Steve Punt, Will Smith and Marcus Brigstocke
- Tom Holland, Bettany Hughes, Peter Stothard
- Tom Holland: De-radicalising Muhammad
- Vikram Seth
- William Banks-Blaney
- Yuval Noah Harari