Audio & Video
Billy Bragg: 'Cynicism is the real enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place'
Billy Bragg on cynicism
- Billy Bragg: 'Cynicism is the real enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place'
- The veteran author reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
- Maxine Peake discusses her Shakespeare acting past
- Thomas Keneally on the genesis of Napoleon’s Last Island
- Joan Bakewell reads from her memoir, Stop the Clocks
- Sam Mendes on Judi Dench
- Sam Mendes: It's time for a new James Bond director
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
- Caitlin Moran reads from her latest book Moranifesto
- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
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
- 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
- Yanis Varoufakis