Audio & Video
The Old Barbed Wire
The author sings a moving song from Oh What A Lovely War.
- The Old Barbed Wire
- Why I wrote Private Peaceful
- On becoming a writer
- David Roberts' drawing tips
- Andrew Davies: 'Les Misérables needs a champion'
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Russell T Davies on young women and suicide
- Imtiaz Dharker's In Wales, wanting to be Italian
- Edmund de Waal: The fabled city of porcelain
- Jeanette Winterson explains why she chose The Winter’s Tale as her Shakespeare ‘cover version’
- O for a muse of fire
- Peter Carey: A reading from Amnesia
- Ben Miller remembers Professor Brian Cox in a rage
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- 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 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