Audio & Video
Being Lear
Jonathan Bate examines how great actors have interpreted Shakespeare's ageing king.
- Being Lear
- O for a muse of fire
- Schama Chameleon
- Much ado about characters
- Was it a member of the aristocracy that penned Shakespeare's plays?
- Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'
- Peter Carey: ‘Information and art are different things’
- Peter Carey: Why Ned Kelly was a folk hero in Australia
- Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war
- Maxine Peake discusses her Shakespeare acting past
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- James Shapiro on his own Shakespeare experiences
- Imtiaz Dharkar's The Trick
- Sarah Millican on her BAFTA red carpet experience
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