Audio & Video
Much ado about characters
Can you guess Simon Schama's favourite Shakespearean role?
- Much ado about characters
- A traumatic experience on the BAFTA red carpet
- Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
- Russell T Davies on young women and suicide
- Yanis Varoufakis on Margaret Thatcher
- David Mitchell: 'The best of the Star Treks are art'
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
- Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin on the opening of Flying Fergus
- The Habit of Light by Gillian Clarke
- Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise
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
- 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
- Simon Schama
- Stephen Frears
- Steve Silberman
- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis