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Radio 6 Music,5 mins

'As soon as it finishes you miss it' Maxine Peake on the acting process

Radcliffe and Maconie

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'Emotionally it's a bigger journey than Hamlet.' Nearing the end of a successful run of A Streetcar Named Desire at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, Maxine Peake shares her thoughts on the actor's life. Maxine chats to Mark Radcliffe about personalising the classic role of Blanche Dubois, and utilising Kate Tempet's methodology for memorising lines - as revealed in a recent 6 Music interview.

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