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Mark Ravenhill, author of the play Shopping and Fucking and now responsible for writing the third series of This Life, Frank magazine
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Rupert Everett on the art of acting, Daily Telegraph
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Damien Hirst on the Royal Academy, Evening Standard
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Marcus Harvey, artist, on his controversial portrait of Myra Hindley, to be hung at the Royal Academy's show of young British artists, Guardian
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Critic Frank Kermode on why he never became a novelist, Desert Island Discs
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