Audio & Video
O for a muse of fire
How Henry V's opening line hooked a nine-year-old Simon Schama.
- O for a muse of fire
- When Professor Brian Cox lost the plot
- Marlon James reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Edmund de Waal: The fabled city of porcelain
- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Marlon James: Full session
- David Roberts' drawing tips
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Bront毛: A Life
- Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Was it a member of the aristocracy that penned Shakespeare's plays?
- Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
Featured Collections
Act Videos
- Andrew Davies
- Baaba Maal
- 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
- 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