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Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance

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Thomas Keneally on the genesis of Napoleon’s Last Island

Caitlin Moran: 'Social media is like being in the pub on a Friday night'

Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life

James Shapiro on his own Shakespeare experiences

Thomas Keneally on the cruelty of writing

Russell T Davies admits to a surprise collaboration on the A Midsummer Night's Dream script

Eleanor Tomlinson: 'You don't have a social life when you film Poldark'

Michael Morpurgo: Why I wrote Private Peaceful

The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told