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Susan Calman on growing up gay
The Scottish comedian discusses her sexuality
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- The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn鈥檛 like'
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Andrew Davies on the cinematic writing of Tolstoy
- Salman Rushdie on realism
- David Gilmour on the unique sound of Rattle That Lock
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Bront毛: A Life
- Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
- Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war
- Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer
- Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
- Edna O'Brien on The Mothers of Srebrenica
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