Audio & Video
Much ado about characters
Can you guess Simon Schama's favourite Shakespearean role?
- Much ado about characters
- The veteran author reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
- Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire
- David Gilmour on the unique sound of Rattle That Lock
- Billy Bragg performs Brickbat
- Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten
- Eleanor Tomlinson: 'You don't have a social life when you film Poldark'
- Michael Palin: How we named Monty Python
- Andrew Davies on the cinematic writing of Tolstoy
- Billy Bragg: 'Cynicism is the real enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place'
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