Audio & Video
Baaba Maal - Traveller
The closing track in the Senegalese star's set.
- Baaba Maal - Traveller
- The Old Barbed Wire
- Why I wrote Private Peaceful
- On becoming a writer
- Baaba Maal - Lampenda
- O for a muse of fire
- Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
- Andrew Davies on the cinematic writing of Tolstoy
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
- Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Being Lear
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
- A future President tells Americans the dollar has collapsed in Lionel Shriver's novel
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 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