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Peter Carey: Why Ned Kelly was a folk hero in Australia
How a criminal became a "gentleman' bank robber" and "could have been a general".
- Peter Carey: Why Ned Kelly was a folk hero in Australia
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake's conceptions of Hamlet
- Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
- Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
- Baaba Maal - Traveller
- Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
- Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
- Ben Miller remembers Professor Brian Cox in a rage
- James Shapiro on his own Shakespeare experiences
- Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'
- Caitlin Moran: 'Social media is like being in the pub on a Friday night'
- Edna O'Brien on The Mothers of Srebrenica
- Thomas Keneally on the girl in red in Schindler's List
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn鈥檛 like'
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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
- 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