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Being Lear
Jonathan Bate examines how great actors have interpreted Shakespeare's ageing king.
- Being Lear
- The most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Steve Silberman: 鈥楾here has been no autism tsunami鈥
- Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin on the opening of Flying Fergus
- Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
- Gillian Clarke's Running away to the Sea
- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
- Michael Morpurgo: Why I wrote Private Peaceful
- Baaba Maal - Lampenda
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Ben Miller remembers Professor Brian Cox in a rage
- Julian Clary and illustrator David Roberts on drawing a hyena
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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
- 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
- Peter Carey
- 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