Billy Bragg on the importance of the BBC

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

Baaba Maal - Traveller

Baaba Maal - Lampenda

Steve Silberman: ‘There has been no autism tsunami’

Writer Debbie Horsfield on the financial challenges of making a series like Poldark

Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield: 'Aidan was our one and only choice'

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

Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War

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

Stephen Frears on the Oscars diversity row

Much ado about characters

Schama Chameleon

O for a muse of fire

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

Julian Clary and David Roberts: Drawing by committee

Ben Miller remembers Professor Brian Cox in a rage

Stephen Frears on Muhammad Ali

George Monbiot on the definition of neoliberalism

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

Shakespeare and the reformation

Juliet not Romeo

The original virtual reality

Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin on the opening of Flying Fergus

David Roberts' drawing tips

Julian Clary and illustrator David Roberts on drawing a hyena

'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn’t like'

The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told

Did Shakespeare really write his plays?

'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'

Sarah Millican on her BAFTA red carpet experience

Malorie Blackman's life lesson

Michael Morpurgo sings The Old Barbed Wire

Michael Morpurgo: Why I wrote Private Peaceful

Michael Morpurgo on becoming a writer

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'

Baaba Maal - Fulani Rock

Thomas Keneally on Oskar Schindler

Billy Bragg performs Brickbat