Audio & Video
Being Lear
Jonathan Bate examines how great actors have interpreted Shakespeare's ageing king.
- Being Lear
- Letter to My Daughter
- Caitlin reads from her latest book Moranifesto
- 'Social media is like being in the pub on a Friday night'
- Billy Bragg performs Brickbat
- Julian Clary and David Roberts: Drawing by committee
- The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
- A future President tells Americans the dollar has collapsed in Lionel Shriver's novel
- Yanis Varoufakis on Margaret Thatcher
- Gillian Clarke's Running away to the Sea
- Russell T Davies admits to a surprise collaboration on the A Midsummer Night's Dream script
- Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
- Which world leader got to drive the VW Beetle?
- Russell T Davies talks about diversity in his A Midsummer Night's Dream
Featured Collections
Act Videos
- Andrew Davies
- Baaba Maal
- Ben Miller
- Billy Bragg
- 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
- Yanis Varoufakis