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O for a muse of fire
How Henry V's opening line hooked a nine-year-old Simon Schama.
- O for a muse of fire
- Don't take another writing course, just write and free your subconscious
- The genesis of Napoleon’s Last Island
- Ben Miller remembers Professor Brian Cox in a rage
- Why are Germans more welcoming to migrants?
- David Mitchell: 'The best of the Star Treks are art'
- Baaba Maal - Fulani Rock
- Stephen Frears on Muhammad Ali
- Peter Carey: ‘Information and art are different things’
- Andrew Davies: 'Les Misérables needs a champion'
- James Shapiro discusses Shakespeare's productivity
- Billy Bragg: 'Cynicism is the real enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place'
- Lionel Shriver on 'the outrageous gamble of having a child'
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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
- 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 Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis