Voices
Which Shakespeare play has been translated into 75 languages? How many times does the word 'love' appear in the complete works? Here are some unusual facts about the great English writer.
Digital art has been around since the 1950s in the UK. We spoke to 15 Folds about the growing impact of digital art on the museum and gallery sector in the UK,
Iranian writer Nima Malek Mohamadi walks us through Iran's recent literary history.
British artist Michael Landy explains the inspiration behind his Saints Alive exhibition, which recently moved from London to Mexico City.
Setting up and running a book group is a different experience in every country. Miriam Vaswani, who organised a book group at the British Council in Tunis, explains how she did it.
World-renowned environmental conservationist Dr Jane Goodall shares her views on the future of our planet and how we should think about animals.
Vivian Futran Fuhrman, PhD candidate at Ben Gurion University, explains why desertification is a threat to us all ahead of the 'Drylands, Deserts and Desertification' conference.
Best-selling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak spoke to the British Council's Ted Hodgkinson about how her global perspective has influenced her hugely successful fiction.
This Black History Month in the UK, the British Council’s Paul Howson explains how the Harlem Renaissance turned disillusionment into pride.
The T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet tells us about working in prisons, family life and the eeriness of English suburbs.