Salman Rushdie on realism

'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'

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'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'

Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire

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Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War

David Gilmour on the unique sound of Rattle That Lock

Billy Bragg on the importance of the BBC

Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer

Sam Mendes on Steven Spielberg

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