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'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
Why international actors shouldn't put on an English accent when in the bard's plays.
  1. 'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
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    'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
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    Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
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    Billy Bragg: 'Who does she think she is, the Queen of England?!'
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    Marlon James: Full session
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    Andrew Davies on the cinematic writing of Tolstoy
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    Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield: 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
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    Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
  9. Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
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    Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
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    Michael Morpurgo: Why I wrote Private Peaceful
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    Writer Debbie Horsfield on the financial challenges of making a series like Poldark
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