Audio & Video
O for a muse of fire
How Henry V's opening line hooked a nine-year-old Simon Schama.
- O for a muse of fire
- Why Ned Kelly was a folk hero in Australia
- Information and art are different things
- A reading from Amnesia
- 'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
- Russell T Davies on young women and suicide
- Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer
- Imtiaz Dharkar's The Trick
- Edna O'Brien on The Mothers of Srebrenica
- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
- Billy Bragg performs Brickbat
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Bront毛: A Life
- Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin on the opening of Flying Fergus
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
- 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