Billy Bragg on the importance of the BBC

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

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

Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin on the opening of Flying Fergus

Susan Calman on growing up gay

Which world leader got to drive the VW Beetle?

David Mitchell: 'The best of the Star Treks are art'

Baaba Maal - Traveller

Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"

Thomas Keneally on the girl in red in Schindler's List

Letter to My Daughter

Edmund de Waal: The fabled city of porcelain