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Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
The naturalist discusses farm animal welfare and why rabbits shouldn't be kept in cages
Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten- 'Les Misérables needs a champion'
- The cinematic writing of Tolstoy
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
- Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
- Maxine Peake discusses her Shakespeare acting past
- David Mitchell: 'The best of the Star Treks are art'
- Thomas Keneally on the girl in red in Schindler's List
- Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Writer Debbie Horsfield on the financial challenges of making a series like Poldark
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- Edna O'Brien
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- James Shapiro
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- Jeanette Winterson: Shakespeare 400
- Joan Bakewell
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- Simon Schama
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- Steve Silberman
- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis
