Audio & Video
Was it a member of the aristocracy that penned Shakespeare's plays?
Jonathan Bate debunks the conspiracy theories behind.
- Was it a member of the aristocracy that penned Shakespeare's plays?
- On the girl in red
- On Steven Spielberg
- On Oskar Schindler
- Being Lear
- Joan Bakewell reads from her memoir, Stop the Clocks
- Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
- Andrew Davies: 'Les Mis茅rables needs a champion'
- Peter Carey: A reading from Amnesia
- Susan Calman on how Victoria Wood inspired her to become a comedian
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Bront毛: A Life
- Thomas Keneally on the cruelty of writing
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
- Simon Schama
- Stephen Frears
- Steve Silberman
- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Yanis Varoufakis