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
- Schama Chameleon
- Much ado about characters
- Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
- Sam Mendes on Steven Spielberg
- Malorie Blackman's life lesson
- Stephen Frears on Muhammad Ali
- Peter Carey: ‘Information and art are different things’
- Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
- Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
- Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
- Salman Rushdie on realism
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
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
- 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
- Stephen Frears
- Steve Silberman
- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis