Audio & Video
Being Lear
Jonathan Bate examines how great actors have interpreted Shakespeare's ageing king.
- Being Lear
- Gillian Clarke's Running away to the Sea
- Imtiaz Dharker's In Wales, wanting to be Italian
- Imtiaz Dharkar's The Trick
- The Habit of Light by Gillian Clarke
- Thomas Keneally on Steven Spielberg
- Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin on the opening of Flying Fergus
- The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
- Sarah Millican on her BAFTA red carpet experience
- Jeanette Winterson explains why she chose The Winter’s Tale as her Shakespeare ‘cover version’
- Thomas Keneally on the genesis of Napoleon’s Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on the girl in red in Schindler's List
- Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs
- Peter Carey: ‘Information and art are different things’
- Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
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
- 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
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis