Audio & Video
Being Lear
Jonathan Bate examines how great actors have interpreted Shakespeare's ageing king.
- Being Lear
- The challenges of playing Demelza
- 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- The difficulties of making Poldark on a budget
- Thomas Keneally on the cruelty of writing
- Which world leader got to drive the VW Beetle?
- The Habit of Light by Gillian Clarke
- 'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
- Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer
- Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
- David Mitchell: 'The best of the Star Treks are art'
- Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
- A future President tells Americans the dollar has collapsed in Lionel Shriver's novel
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Bront毛: A Life
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
- 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