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Making Hay - the best of Shakespeare from the 2016 Hay Festival

An incredible array of actors, authors, writers and academics were at this year's Hay Festival to mark 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare.

Watch full sessions, clips and other highlights from Russell T Davies to Ruby Wax, Malorie Blackman to Marcus Brigstocke and Jonathan Dimbleby to Jeanette Winterson.

  • A pioneering partnership produced by the Â鶹ԼÅÄ and the British Council with partners The RSC, Shakespeare's Globe, BFI, Royal Opera House and Hay Festival.

  • Will's will, Shakespeare in Pop, the biggest Bottoms - discover these and many more features about the world's greatest playwright.

Watch sessions in full including Russell T Davies and Maxine Peake, Germaine Greer and Greg Doran

  • Find out what Shakespeare means to some of the big names appearing at Hay as they share their memorable moments with the Bard.

What would you ask Shakespeare?

Burning questions for the Bard.

from Russell T Davies, Maxine Peake, Ruby Wax, Tony Robinson, Salman Rushdie and many more.

Ruff Stuff! Shakespeare Goes to Hay Festival 2016

Watch more 'Haylight' clips of the best of Shakespeare at the Hay Festival 2016!

  • A one-stop-shop of Shakespeare delights from the 2016 Hay Festival stages

  • The author of 1599 offers an intimate portrait of one of Shakespeare’s most inspired moments: the year of King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra

  • Watch live as the former Doctor Who show-runner talks about his passion project, the Â鶹ԼÅÄ film of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream, with one of its stars, Maxine Peake

  • Two of the greatest modern Hamlets, Maxine Peake and Paapa Essiedu discuss the role with the author of This Orient Isle, Jerry Brotton (Shakespeare adviser to the Hay Festival)

  • The novelists celebrate the 400th anniversaries of Cervantes and Shakespeare and the stories that they have written around them

  • Watch more clips as the writer and lecturer discusses the playwright’s poetry to mark his 400th anniversary

  • The British poets introduce and read the original sonnets and their own newly commissioned work

  • Why are we celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death? Who and what are we celebrating? How did make it to global icon and where will he go in the next hundred years?

  • The author pays tribute to Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary with her new novel inspired by Othello.

  • Watch more clips as the Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company discusses Shakespeare’s legacy

  • The novelist and essayist celebrates the work and gift of the playwright. Her latest novel The Gap of Time is a retelling of The Winter’s Tale

  • The historian examines Shakespeare’s making of the myths of England including a rendition of 'Brush up your Shakespeare'!