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The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
RSC artistic director Gregory Doran on how changing words can be compunctious
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    The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
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    The challenges of playing Demelza
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    'Aidan was our one and only choice'
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    The difficulties of making Poldark on a budget
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    Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
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    Thomas Keneally on the genesis of Napoleon’s Last Island
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    Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war
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    A future President tells Americans the dollar has collapsed in Lionel Shriver's novel
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    Yanis Varoufakis on Brexit
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    Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs
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    Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
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