Audio & Video
Schama Chameleon
The historian has a brief turn at cabaret to help us brush up our Shakespeare
- Schama Chameleon
- ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
- Claire reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
- Michael Palin on growing a moustache for new movies
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield: 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Peter Carey: Why Ned Kelly was a folk hero in Australia
- Stephen Frears on the Oscars diversity row
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- Chris Hoy
- Chris Packham
- David Gilmour and Polly Samson
- David Mitchell
- Edmund de Waal
- Edna O'Brien
- Eleanor Tomlinson, Karen Thrussell and Debbie Horsfield
- Fay Weldon
- George Monbiot
- Germaine Greer
- Gregory Doran
- Imtiaz Dharker and Gillian Clarke
- James Shapiro
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- Jeanette Winterson: Shakespeare 400
- Joan Bakewell
- Jonathan Bate
- Jonathan Dimbleby
- Julian Clary and David Roberts
- Lionel Shriver
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- Marlon James
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- Michael Morpurgo
- Michael Palin
- Neil MacGregor and Richard J Evans
- Paul Mason
- Peter Carey
- Ruby Wax
- Russell T Davies and Maxine Peake
- Salman Rushdie
- Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie, Valeria Luiselli and Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- Sam Mendes
- Sarah Millican and Hannah Dunleavy
- Simon Schama
- Stephen Frears
- Steve Silberman
- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis