Audio & Video
Bettany Hughes on the slave girl who negotiated with Elizabeth I
Former concubine Safiye Sultan sorted a trade deal then asked the Queen for make-up tips.
Bettany Hughes on the slave girl who negotiated with Elizabeth I- Bernie Sanders: Most Americans don't agree with President Trump
- Tom Daley: The story behind my tattoo
- Nadya Tolokno: I read The Gulag Archipelago in prison
- Ed Balls: Why I did Strictly Come Dancing
- Ian Rankin: The origins of Rebus
- Jeanette Winterson: We all need an education in love
- Bill Bailey: Why I love the collective nouns for birds
- Lucy Worsley: Did Jane Austen ever have sex?
- Elif Shafak: There are two ways to write a book
- Stephen Fry: We all just need to grow up
Featured Collections
Act Videos
- Bettany Hughes
- Bill Bailey
- Charlotte Rampling
- Chris Riddell
- Christina Lamb, Helena Kennedy, Rachael Jolley and Joan Bakewell
- Colm TóibÃn
- David Mitchell
- Ed Balls
- Elif Shafak
- Frank Cotterell Boyce
- Garry Kasparov
- Graham Norton
- Helen Fielding
- Ian Rankin
- James Rhodes
- Jeanette Winterson
- Lemn Sissay
- Lucy Worsley
- Michael Sheen
- Nadya Tolokno
- Neil Gaiman and Stephen Fry
- Nicholas Hytner
- Paul Beatty
- Paula Byrne
- Philippe Sands
- Stephen Fry
- Stephen Fry, Bettany Hughes, Lawrence Krauss and Martin Rees
- Tom Daley
- Tony Robinson
- Tracey Emin
- Will Self