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Being Lear
Jonathan Bate examines how great actors have interpreted Shakespeare's ageing king.
- Being Lear
- Edna O'Brien on being invited to the White House for dinner
- Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs
- Edna O'Brien on The Mothers of Srebrenica
- Susan Calman on growing up gay
- Sam Mendes on Steven Spielberg
- James Shapiro on his own Shakespeare experiences
- Susan Calman on how Victoria Wood inspired her to become a comedian
- Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin on the opening of Flying Fergus
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
- Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
- Gillian Clarke's Running away to the Sea
- Russell T Davies on young women and suicide
- Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
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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
- 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
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis