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Schama Chameleon
The historian has a brief turn at cabaret to help us brush up our Shakespeare
- Schama Chameleon
- The effect of John Donne's poetry on her young friends' courting habits
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
- Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'
- Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Billy Bragg on the importance of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war
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- Andrew Davies
- 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
- 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