Thomas Keneally on the cruelty of writing

It's time for a new James Bond director

Why picking the next James Bond isn't a public vote

Meeting Steven Spielberg for the first time

Telling Judi Dench: 'You can try it but it won't work' - at 24

Shakespeare as a 16th Century housewife's favourite

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

Salman Rushdie on the private act of writing a book

Michael Morpurgo: Why I wrote Private Peaceful

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

Susan Calman on growing up gay

Maxine Peake on working with choreographer Arlene Phillips

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

Maxine Peake discusses her Shakespeare acting past

Paul Mason: 'A whole new way of doing things'