BBC at Hay Festival 2016

As the sun sets on this year's festival, we look back on 10 days of ideas, insight and inspiration

We put the question to stars at Hay - from Ruby Wax to Salman Rushdie

Directors, actors, TV personalities and singers - from Sam Mendes to David Gilmour

The best thinkers at the festival on everything from economics to feminism.

The novelist and essayist celebrates the work and gift of the playwright

The Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company discusses the Bard's legacy

The author pays tribute to Shakespeare in a new novel inspired by Othello

The British Academy Lecture: William Shakespeare 1616-2116

The poets respond with their own poems to their choice of Shakespeare’s sonnets

The writer and lecturer discusses Shakespeare's poetry

Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie, Valeria Luiselli and Juan Gabriel Vasquez on Cervantes and Shakespeare

Maxine Peake and Paapa Essiedu talk to Jerry Brotton about the great Shakespearean role

The screenwriter and star of A Midsummer Night's Dream discuss the BBC One adaptation

On 1606: the year of King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra