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Much ado about characters
Can you guess Simon Schama's favourite Shakespearean role?
- Much ado about characters
- The author explains why she chose The Winter鈥檚 Tale as her Shakespeare 鈥榗over version鈥
- The Habit of Light by Gillian Clarke
- Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war
- Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire
- Steve Silberman: 鈥楾here has been no autism tsunami鈥
- Lionel Shriver on 'the outrageous gamble of having a child'
- Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin on the opening of Flying Fergus
- Imtiaz Dharkar's The Trick
- Which world leader got to drive the VW Beetle?
- Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
- Stephen Frears on the Oscars diversity row
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: 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
- Simon Schama
- Stephen Frears
- Steve Silberman
- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis