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How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood
Executive producer Pippa Harris and writer Heidi Thomas both faced fertility issues.
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- William Banks-Blaney on Elizabeth Taylor at Studio 54
- Antonia Fraser on books, reading and becoming a writer
- Cressida Cowell on maps and the writer's imagination
- John Boyne on why Bruno reads Treasure Island
- Rose Tremain on The American Lover
- Helen Macdonald: I started to dream of goshawks
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