Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them

Why Ned Kelly was a folk hero in Australia

Information and art are different things

A reading from Amnesia

Marlon James reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings

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

Ruby Wax on the most flattering thing you can do for another person

Eleanor Tomlinson: 'You don't have a social life when you film Poldark'

Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips

Baaba Maal - Fulani Rock

Billy Bragg: 'Who does she think she is, the Queen of England?!'

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

Being Lear

Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer