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Being Lear
Jonathan Bate examines how great actors have interpreted Shakespeare's ageing king.
- Being Lear
- The author explains why she chose The Winter鈥檚 Tale as her Shakespeare 鈥榗over version鈥
- Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer
- Stephen Frears on Muhammad Ali
- Marlon James reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Sam Mendes: It's time for a new James Bond director
- Steve Silberman: 鈥楾here has been no autism tsunami鈥
- Thomas Keneally on the cruelty of writing
- Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise
- Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips
- Juliet not Romeo
- Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
Featured Collections
Act Videos
- Andrew Davies
- Baaba Maal
- Ben Miller
- Billy Bragg
- Caitlin Moran
- Chris Hoy
- Chris Packham
- Claire Harman
- 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
- Jeanette Winterson: Shakespeare 400
- Joan Bakewell
- Jonathan Bate
- Jonathan Dimbleby
- Julian Clary and David Roberts
- Lionel Shriver
- Malorie Blackman
- Marlon James
- Maxine Peake and Paapa Essiedu
- 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