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Being Lear
Jonathan Bate examines how great actors have interpreted Shakespeare's ageing king.
  1. Being Lear
    08:47
    Being Lear
  2. Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake's conceptions of Hamlet
    04:00
    Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake's conceptions of Hamlet
  3. Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
    02:37
    Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
  4. Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
    00:39
    Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
  5. Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
    03:41
    Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
  6. Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
    01:06
    Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
  7. Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
    01:22
    Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
  8. Baaba Maal - Fulani Rock
    04:55
    Baaba Maal - Fulani Rock
  9. Yanis Varoufakis on Margaret Thatcher
    02:56
    Yanis Varoufakis on Margaret Thatcher
  10. Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
    01:12
    Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
  11. Letter to My Daughter
    06:24
    Letter to My Daughter
  12. Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
    01:24
    Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
  13. Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'
    01:17
    Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'
  14. Julian Clary and illustrator David Roberts on drawing a hyena
    03:30
    Julian Clary and illustrator David Roberts on drawing a hyena
  15. Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
    05:41
    Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life
  16. 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
    01:26
    'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'
  17. Stephen Frears on the Oscars diversity row
    00:52
    Stephen Frears on the Oscars diversity row
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