Audio & Video
'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
Gregory Doran's issues with Shakespeare's famous play.
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
- The challenges of playing Demelza
- 'Aidan was our one and only choice'
- The difficulties of making Poldark on a budget
- Baaba Maal - Fulani Rock
- Joan Bakewell reads from her memoir, Stop the Clocks
- A future President tells Americans the dollar has collapsed in Lionel Shriver's novel
- Baaba Maal - Traveller
- Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer
- What Shakespeare and today's soap opera writers have in common
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Imtiaz Dharkar's The Trick
- Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
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
- 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
- Yanis Varoufakis