Audio & Video
Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
Bard expert Jonathan Bate explains why the magical world appears in Shakespeare's plays.
- Why was Shakespeare enchanted by the supernatural?
- On Margaret Thatcher
- On Brexit
- Caitlin Moran reads from her latest book Moranifesto
- Sarah Millican on her BAFTA red carpet experience
- Baaba Maal - Traveller
- Sam Mendes on Judi Dench
- Claire Harman: ‘I’ve made Charlotte Brontë’s hair move’
- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- O for a muse of fire
- Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'
- Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war
- Writer Debbie Horsfield on the financial challenges of making a series like Poldark
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
- 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