A future President tells Americans the dollar has collapsed in Lionel Shriver's novel

The author explains why she chose The Winter’s Tale as her Shakespeare ‘cover version’

Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War

Chris Packham: Animals deserve a decent existence up to when they are eaten

Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs

Billy Bragg: 'Cynicism is the real enemy of all of us who want to make the world a better place'

Imtiaz Dharkar's The Trick

Salman Rushdie: "Shakespeare mashes up form"

Sarah Millican on her BAFTA red carpet experience

'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'

Imtiaz Dharker's In Wales, wanting to be Italian

Marlon James reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings