Salman Rushdie on realism

Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream

Russell T Davies on young women and suicide

Maxine Peake discusses her Shakespeare acting past

Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips

Russell T Davies talks about diversity in his A Midsummer Night's Dream

Russell T Davies admits to a surprise collaboration on the A Midsummer Night's Dream script

Stephen Frears on the Oscars diversity row

Edna O'Brien on being invited to the White House for dinner

Sarah Millican on her BAFTA red carpet experience

Sam Mendes on the James Bond franchise

Thomas Keneally on the cruelty of writing

Peter Carey: ‘Information and art are different things’

Thomas Keneally on the genesis of Napoleon’s Last Island

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

Sam Mendes on Judi Dench

Peter Carey: A reading from Amnesia