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Inspirational Leadership: timeless lessons for leaders from Shakespeare's Henry V by Richard Olivier. We don't change much. Let the dramatists be the politicians! Or, better still, the mothers…
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It's about ten foot by six, covered head-to-toe in music - CDs and books. There's a big slab of maple wood, where I work.
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[Astrid Lindgren's] Pippi Longstocking. She always questions everybody, no matter what their standing in society. She struck a big chord with me.
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Jeff Towns, who tirelessly... has become a curator for Dylan Thomas's legacy.
'Hook, Line and Singer' by Cerys Matthews is published by Penguin; she is a judge for the Dylan Thomas Prize
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