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Schama Chameleon
The historian has a brief turn at cabaret to help us brush up our Shakespeare
Schama Chameleon- O for a muse of fire
- Much ado about characters
- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
- Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
- David Gilmour on the unique sound of Rattle That Lock
- Peter Carey: Why Ned Kelly was a folk hero in Australia
- Michael Palin: How we named Monty Python
- Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- Which world leader got to drive the VW Beetle?
- Lionel Shriver: Why Donald Trump wouldn’t work as a fictional character
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- Edmund de Waal
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- Marlon James
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- Stephen Frears
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