Audio & Video
Schama Chameleon
The historian has a brief turn at cabaret to help us brush up our Shakespeare
- Schama Chameleon
- Gillian Clarke's Running away to the Sea
- Imtiaz Dharker's In Wales, wanting to be Italian
- Imtiaz Dharkar's The Trick
- The Habit of Light by Gillian Clarke
- Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
- Jeanette Winterson explains why she chose The Winter’s Tale as her Shakespeare ‘cover version’
- Which world leader got to drive the VW Beetle?
- Marlon James reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
- Michael Morpurgo: Why I wrote Private Peaceful
- Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs
- George Monbiot on the definition of neoliberalism
- Eleanor Tomlinson: 'You don't have a social life when you film Poldark'
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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
- 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