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Much ado about characters
Can you guess Simon Schama's favourite Shakespearean role?
- Much ado about characters
- The fabled city of porcelain
- Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- Joan Bakewell reads from her memoir, Stop the Clocks
- Jeanette Winterson explains why she chose The Winter’s Tale as her Shakespeare ‘cover version’
- Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise
- Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
- Billy Bragg: 'Who does she think she is, the Queen of England?!'
- Julian Clary and illustrator David Roberts on drawing a hyena
- Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book
- Lionel Shriver: Why Donald Trump wouldn’t 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
- 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
- Yanis Varoufakis