Voices
Manick Govinda of UK arts producing organisation Artsadmin is an advocate for the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. Artsadmin founder Judith Knight takes the opposite view.
Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo talks about reading books against the internet's distractions, as well as which new writers to look out for.
We asked playwright Jo Clifford to tell us about her creative process and how her experience of transgender issues has influenced her writing.
We asked Maung Day, Burmese poet and writer in residence at Edge Hill University in the UK, about poetry in Burma today, and the influences on his own writing.
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Have you ever shown films to your class, or considered setting up a film club? Daryn Simon, Head of History at Ysgol Bryn Alyn, and Beatrix Clark of Into Film share some advice.
Drawing on the histories of female writers and performers in England, Dr Emma Whipday of King's College London asks what might have become of Shakespeare if he had been a woman.
Briony Hanson, the British Council's director of film, talks about how film can challenge and educate.
Sir Andrew Motion, former British Poet Laureate, talks to journalist Georgina Godwin about his native UK as a 'country of Shakespeare', and explains how the Bard has influenced his work.
Two digital-age writers, Jon Ronson and Alexandra Heminsley, discuss the implications of new forms of communication in a podcast with journalist Georgina Godwin.
Professor Michael Dobson explains how Shakespeare manages to be simultaneously historical and contemporary, ahead of his Smart Talks on this subject in China on 21-24 September.