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Much ado about characters
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Much ado about characters- Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
- Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"
- Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
- Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person
- Baaba Maal - Lampenda
- Russell T Davies on young women and suicide
- Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
- Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Bront毛: A Life
- Thomas Keneally on Oskar Schindler
- Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
- Billy Bragg: 'Cynicism is the real enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place'
Featured Collections
Act Videos
- 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
- 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
- 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