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Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
Discover the two big names that helped push the actors in their careers
  1. Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
    01:22
    Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
  2. ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
    03:00
    ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
  3. Claire reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
    05:41
    Claire reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
  4. Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs
    01:54
    Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs
  5. Russell T Davies admits to a surprise collaboration on the A Midsummer Night's Dream script
    01:19
    Russell T Davies admits to a surprise collaboration on the A Midsummer Night's Dream script
  6. Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake's conceptions of Hamlet
    04:00
    Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake's conceptions of Hamlet
  7. Caitlin Moran reads from her latest book Moranifesto
    06:01
    Caitlin Moran reads from her latest book Moranifesto
  8. What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
    01:37
    What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
  9. 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
    01:26
    'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
  10. Edmund de Waal: The fabled city of porcelain
    02:33
    Edmund de Waal: The fabled city of porcelain
  11. Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise
    01:22
    Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise
  12. Julian Clary and David Roberts: Drawing by committee
    02:39
    Julian Clary and David Roberts: Drawing by committee
  13. Billy Bragg on the importance of the BBC
    01:38
    Billy Bragg on the importance of the BBC
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