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Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
RSC artistic director Gregory Doran's view on the conspiracy theories.
- Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
- Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
- Being Lear
- Was it a member of the aristocracy that penned Shakespeare's plays?
- The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Russell T Davies talks about diversity in his A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
- Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
- Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
- Salman Rushdie on realism
- Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield: 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- Edna O'Brien on The Mothers of Srebrenica
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Act Videos
- Andrew Davies
- Baaba Maal
- Ben Miller
- Billy Bragg
- Caitlin Moran
- Chris Hoy
- Chris Packham
- Claire Harman
- David Gilmour and Polly Samson
- David Mitchell
- Edmund de Waal
- Edna O'Brien
- Eleanor Tomlinson, Karen Thrussell and Debbie Horsfield
- Fay Weldon
- George Monbiot
- Germaine Greer
- Gregory Doran
- Imtiaz Dharker and Gillian Clarke
- James Shapiro
- Jeanette Winterson on The Gap of Time
- Jeanette Winterson: Shakespeare 400
- Joan Bakewell
- Jonathan Dimbleby
- Julian Clary and David Roberts
- Lionel Shriver
- Malorie Blackman
- Marlon James
- Maxine Peake and Paapa Essiedu
- Michael Morpurgo
- Michael Palin
- Neil MacGregor and Richard J Evans
- Paul Mason
- Peter Carey
- Ruby Wax
- Russell T Davies and Maxine Peake
- Salman Rushdie
- Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie, Valeria Luiselli and Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- Sam Mendes
- Sarah Millican and Hannah Dunleavy
- Simon Schama
- Stephen Frears
- Steve Silberman
- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis