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• War Horse: One Year Later

  Puppeteer and performer Mervyn Millar first wrote about the process of creating War Horse a year ago in The Horse's Mouth. Here he talks about the rehearsal process for the revival of last year's sell-out success.

• Jeannette Nelson: My favourite voice books

  Jeannette Nelson, Head of Voice at the National, chooses her favourite books on voice from the Bookshop.

• Lost in a good book with Hattie Morahan

    

  "I love it when you get so into a book that you want to read it standing up, walking along, at the bus stop, wherever you are."

• Books in rehearsal: Afterlife

  Jenny Eastop, Staff Director on Michael Frayn's Afterlife, gives background to the play and talks about the books that the company used during rehearsal.

• Lost in a good book with Simon Russell Beale

  Simon Russell Beale talks about his first encounter with Shakespeare, the lumpiness of Shaw, and the moment he gave up on Proust.

• Rebecca Lenkiewicz on Her Naked Skin

  I used to work at the National Film Theatre as an usherette and on my breaks I’d often go out to the river with a cup of tea and scour the bookstalls under Waterloo Bridge.