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Her one woman show, being in Blithe Spirit and the roles she likes playing

Prescient plot about the landslide victory of New Labour over the Conservatives in 1997

Training the voice - an actor describes voice production in theatres

The play by Martin McDonagh as described by the actor who plays Billy Claven

The classic ghost story play, adapted from Susan Hill's short story by Stephen Mallatratt

Preparations for an audition through the eyes of the actor

Discussion of this restoration comedy written in 1717

"Musicals have this ability to intensify the experience of theatre"

The excitement felt by the agent in finding a new talent or by securing work for those under their umbrella of care.

Founding members of the Cirque du Soleil discuss how they came to be in Quebec

The RSC version of the story of Beauty and the Beast by Laurence Boswell

RADA as a vocational training school for actors and its focus on talent

Commentary on Tennesee Williams, American writer.

Discussion of Anton Chekhov's Cherry Orchard

Discussion of the poet Anna Wickham

The role of the dame in British pantomime

Dennis Hawthorne talks about Irish playwright William Trevor

Discussion of Cameron Macintosh musical Martin Guerre

Interview on a play about the frailty of old age, the deviousness of old age, unfaithfulness, lies and deceit.

There has been a Lyceum Theatre for 300 years - its restoration is discussed

Alan Davies talks about dramatising classic novels of English literature

Launch of the International Radio Playwriting Competition

"Writing for the page, writing for the eye is much different from writing for the ear"

"It is a farce about a serious subject" John Matthew's play set in Kerala in South India

How Neil Simon first went to New York and began to write for comedian Sid Caesar

"Some of the ideas I was having could end up being far too earnest"

Play by Stewart Parker set in Belfast with four characters and a ghost

Julian Garner discusses his play The Flight into Egypt

Writing for radio "It's as free as the human imagination" says South African Athol Fugard

A flamboyant writer who lived his life in public