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Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
The audiences' connection was what the actress considered key to her performance
Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet- When Professor Brian Cox lost the plot
- Salman Rushdie on realism
- Gillian Clarke's Running away to the Sea
- Schama Chameleon
- Why are Germans more welcoming to migrants?
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Susan Calman on how Victoria Wood inspired her to become a comedian
- Caitlin Moran: 'Social media is like being in the pub on a Friday night'
- Thomas Keneally on the genesis of Napoleon鈥檚 Last Island
- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
- Baaba Maal - Traveller
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- Jeanette Winterson: Shakespeare 400
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- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis