Audio & Video
Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel
Tom Holland, Bettany Hughes and Peter Stothard on Mary Renault鈥檚 Greek historical novels
- Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel
- The Mozart Question: Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro
- The Mozart Question: Michael Morpurgo, Daniel Pioro and the Storyteller's Ensemble
- Frank Cottrell Boyce's first day at school
- Bettany Hughes reads from The King Must Die
- Germaine Greer: Lady Macbeth is an emptyhead
- Sandi Toksvig on the great women of history
- John Boyne: The first review called it a novel of blush-making vulgarity
- How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood
- Courr猫ges of his convictions: William Banks-Blaney on the French Space Age designer
- Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty
- Andrew O'Hagan reads a passage about a firefight in Helmand Province
- Yuval Noah Harari: Why money is the most successful story ever told
Featured Collections
Act Videos
- Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner
- Alex Salmond
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Andrew O鈥橦agan
- Andrew Solomon
- Anne Enright
- Antonia Fraser
- Ben and David Crystal
- Call The Midwife
- Celia Imrie and Terry Waite
- Cressida Cowell
- Dan & Peter Snow
- David Mitchell
- Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Germaine Greer: Liberation
- Germaine Greer: Shakespeare's Women
- Helen Macdonald
- Ian Bostridge
- Irvine Welsh
- James Rhodes
- John Boyne
- Jon Ronson
- Karen Armstrong
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Marcus Brigstocke, Steve Punt and guests
- Mary Portas
- Meera Syal
- Neil Gaiman
- Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
- Nigel Kennedy
- QI鈥檚 Greatest Hits
- Robert Macfarlane
- Rose Tremain
- Sandi Toksvig
- Sheila Hancock
- Simon Schama
- Stephen Fry
- Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and guests
- Steve Punt, Will Smith and Marcus Brigstocke
- Tom Holland, Bettany Hughes, Peter Stothard
- Tom Holland: De-radicalising Muhammad
- Vikram Seth
- William Banks-Blaney
- Yuval Noah Harari