Audio & Video
Being Lear
Jonathan Bate examines how great actors have interpreted Shakespeare's ageing king.
- Being Lear
- On Margaret Thatcher
- On Brexit
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
- Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn鈥檛 like'
- Michael Morpurgo: Why I wrote Private Peaceful
- Baaba Maal - Fulani Rock
- Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'
- 'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
- Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield: 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
- Lionel Shriver: Why Donald Trump wouldn鈥檛 work as a fictional character
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
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark