Audio & Video
'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn鈥檛 like'
Gregory Doran's issues with Shakespeare's famous play.
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn鈥檛 like'
- Gillian Clarke's Running away to the Sea
- Imtiaz Dharker's In Wales, wanting to be Italian
- Imtiaz Dharkar's The Trick
- The Habit of Light by Gillian Clarke
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Peter Carey: Why Ned Kelly was a folk hero in Australia
- Edna O'Brien on being invited to the White House for dinner
- Writer Debbie Horsfield on the financial challenges of making a series like Poldark
- Lionel Shriver on 'the outrageous gamble of having a child'
- Thomas Keneally on Oskar Schindler
- Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield: 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- Thomas Keneally on the cruelty of writing
- Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war
- Michael Palin: How we named Monty Python
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
- 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