Audio & Video
Much ado about characters
Can you guess Simon Schama's favourite Shakespearean role?
- Much ado about characters
- The original virtual reality
- Juliet not Romeo
- Shakespeare and the reformation
- Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Jeanette Winterson explains why she chose The Winter鈥檚 Tale as her Shakespeare 鈥榗over version鈥
- Billy Bragg: 'Cynicism is the real enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place'
- Yanis Varoufakis on Margaret Thatcher
- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
- Sam Mendes on Steven Spielberg
- Lionel Shriver: Why Donald Trump wouldn鈥檛 work as a fictional character
- Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
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
- 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