Audio & Video
Much ado about characters
Can you guess Simon Schama's favourite Shakespearean role?
- Much ado about characters
- On the girl in red
- On Steven Spielberg
- On Oskar Schindler
- Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
- The original virtual reality
- Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise
- Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
- Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Edna O'Brien on The Mothers of Srebrenica
- Imtiaz Dharkar's The Trick
- Caitlin Moran reads from her latest book Moranifesto
- Stephen Frears on Muhammad Ali
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 on The Gap of Time
- 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
- Yanis Varoufakis