Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences

Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake's conceptions of Hamlet

Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet

Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet

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

Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'

Andrew Davies on the cinematic writing of Tolstoy

Being Lear

Susan Calman on growing up gay

Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin on the opening of Flying Fergus

Did Shakespeare really write his plays?

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

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

Schama Chameleon

Sam Mendes on Judi Dench

Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer