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Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
Bard expert Jonathan Bate explains why the magical world appears in Shakespeare's plays.
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    Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
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    Steve Silberman: ‘There has been no autism tsunami’
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    Stephen Frears on Muhammad Ali
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    'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
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    Lionel Shriver on 'the outrageous gamble of having a child'
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    Peter Carey: A reading from Amnesia
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    Imtiaz Dharker's In Wales, wanting to be Italian
  9. Edna O'Brien on The Mothers of Srebrenica
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    Julian Clary and illustrator David Roberts on drawing a hyena
  11. Ben Miller remembers Professor Brian Cox in a rage
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    Ben Miller remembers Professor Brian Cox in a rage
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