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
- It's time for a new James Bond director
- Why picking the next James Bond isn't a public vote
- Meeting Steven Spielberg for the first time
- Telling Judi Dench: 'You can try it but it won't work' - at 24
- Yanis Varoufakis on Margaret Thatcher
- Michael Palin on growing a moustache for new movies
- Juliet not Romeo
- Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite
- Thomas Keneally on the cruelty of writing
- Stephen Frears on Muhammad Ali
- 'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
- Ben Miller remembers Professor Brian Cox in a rage
- Stephen Frears on the Oscars diversity row
- Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"
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
- Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie, Valeria Luiselli and Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- 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