NT Talks
Welcome to our collection of conversations recorded live from the National Theatre stages, including interviews with actors, directors and playwrights.Podcasts
Michael Billington on Stage
Published: March 6, 2020, 2:34 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 42 seconds
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Director Katy Rudd and Adapter Joel Horwood on The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 2:41 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 17 seconds
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Writer Inua Ellams and Director Nadia Fall on Three Sisters
Published: Feb. 21, 2020, 12:19 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds
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Neil Gaiman on The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Published: Feb. 7, 2020, 5:27 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 20 seconds
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Actors Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings on Hansard
Published: Jan. 31, 2020, 2:04 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 21 seconds
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Director Rufus Norris and Adapter Helen Edmundson on Small Island
Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 2:28 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 50 seconds
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A Conversation with Peter Brook
Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 5:20 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 50 seconds
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Director Simon Godwin and Writer Simon Woods on Hansard
Published: Dec. 20, 2019, 3:29 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 29 seconds
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Creating and Performing Peter Gynt (Part Two): David Hare and Jonathan Kent
Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 12:04 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 46 seconds
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Creating and Performing Peter Gynt (Part One): James McArdle
Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 11:52 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 1 second
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Polly Findlay on Rutherford and Son
Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 11:51 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 29 seconds
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Director Polly Findlay on Rutherford and Son
Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 11:34 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 29 seconds
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Roger Allam on Rutherford and Son
Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 2:22 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 51 seconds
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Director Pam MacKinnon and Writer Bruce Norris on Downstate
Published: April 3, 2019, 11:40 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds
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Writer David Hare on I'm Not Running
Published: Jan. 16, 2019, 12:01 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 37 seconds
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Director Rachel Chavkin and Writer Anais Mitchell on Hadestown
Published: Jan. 16, 2019, 11:58 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 40 seconds
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Playwriting Then and Now
Published: Dec. 10, 2018, 4:44 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 12 seconds
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The Influence of Lecoq on UK Theatre
Published: Dec. 10, 2018, 4:40 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 seconds
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Dramatic Exchanges: the Lives and Letters of the NT
Published: Dec. 10, 2018, 4:33 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 9 seconds
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Three Perspectives on Dying
Published: Dec. 3, 2018, 1:06 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 22 seconds
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Patrick Marber on Exit the King
Published: Dec. 3, 2018, 1:03 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 25 seconds
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Ned Bennett and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on An Octoroon
Published: Dec. 3, 2018, 1:01 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 37 seconds
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Ten NT Plays that Would Have Been Banned
Published: Dec. 3, 2018, 12:59 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 23 seconds
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Director Simon Godwin on Antony and Cleopatra
Published: Dec. 3, 2018, 12:56 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 51 seconds
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Director Ian Rickson on Translations
Published: June 20, 2018, 2:41 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds
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Actor Kate Fleetwood on Absolute Hell
Published: June 20, 2018, 12:01 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 8 seconds
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Culture after Windrush
Published: May 29, 2018, 1:35 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 41 seconds
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Performing Shakespeare
Published: May 22, 2018, 3:24 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 45 seconds
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Anne-Marie Duff and Rory Kinnear on Macbeth
Published: May 22, 2018, 3:24 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 10 seconds
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Natasha Gordon and Roy Alexander Weise on Nine Night
Published: May 14, 2018, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 3 seconds
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Reasons to be Graeae
Published: May 9, 2018, 9:26 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 51 seconds
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Jo Nesbo: Macbeth
Published: April 19, 2018, 10:15 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 59 seconds
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Lucian Msamati and Adam Gillen on Mozart and Salieri
Published: March 29, 2018, 1:50 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 7 seconds
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Antony Sher: The Lear Diaries
Published: March 27, 2018, 4:40 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 49 seconds
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National Debate: The Influence of the Media
Published: March 26, 2018, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 24 seconds
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The Future of Musical Theatre
Published: March 7, 2018, 5:39 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 42 seconds
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Shakespeare's England in 1606 with James Shapiro
Published: March 7, 2018, 5:38 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 13 seconds
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Dennis Kelly on Pinocchio
Published: March 1, 2018, 12:31 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 7 seconds
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Chloe Lamford and James Macdonald on John
Published: Feb. 12, 2018, 10:34 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 7 seconds
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Bob Crowley and Toby Olie on Pinocchio
Published: Jan. 12, 2018, 5:06 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 45 seconds
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Josephine Barstow and Tracie Bennett on Follies
Published: Jan. 8, 2018, 11 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 35 seconds
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Private Eye: A Review Of 2017
Published: Dec. 19, 2017, 12:03 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 55 seconds
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Little Me: The A-Z of Matt Lucas
Published: Dec. 14, 2017, 5:19 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 39 seconds
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year
Published: Dec. 1, 2017, 1:50 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 41 seconds
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National Debate: Class - an unequal nation?
Published: Nov. 20, 2017, 2:34 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 50 seconds
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Polly Findlay and David Eldridge on Beginning
Published: Nov. 6, 2017, 11:41 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 50 seconds
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Dominic Cooke on Follies
Published: Oct. 26, 2017, 4:50 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 50 seconds
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Nadia Clifford and Tim Delap on Jane Eyre
Published: Oct. 25, 2017, 4:19 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 27 seconds
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Peter Brook: Tip of the Tongue
Published: Oct. 10, 2017, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds
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Janie Dee and Philip Quast on Follies
Published: Oct. 4, 2017, 4:40 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 38 seconds
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Mona Juul on the Oslo Accords
Published: Oct. 4, 2017, 4:39 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 22 seconds
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Lucy Kirkwood and Rufus Norris on Mosquitoes
Published: Sept. 26, 2017, 5:01 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds
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Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams on Mosquitoes
Published: Sept. 26, 2017, 4:28 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds
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Nathan Lane and Russell Tovey on Angels in America
Published: Aug. 8, 2017, 1:14 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 19 seconds
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Anne-Marie Duff on Common
Published: Aug. 8, 2017, 1:13 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 50 seconds
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George Monbiot in Conversation
Published: July 28, 2017, 10:52 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 36 seconds
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Marianne Elliott on Angels in America
Published: July 13, 2017, 2:14 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 43 seconds
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Tony Kushner on Angels in America
Published: July 13, 2017, 2:11 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 25 seconds
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Jeremy Herrin and D C Moore on Common
Published: July 7, 2017, 11:53 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 23 seconds
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Andrew Garfield and Denise Gough on Angels in America
Published: July 4, 2017, 3:12 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 17 seconds
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Curious Incident: Farewell to the West End
Published: June 29, 2017, 3:32 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 6 seconds
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Jan Ravens: Difficult Woman
Published: June 28, 2017, 2:31 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 15 seconds
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Nicholas Hytner: Balancing Acts
Published: May 25, 2017, 12:58 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes
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The National Theatre Podcast
Published: May 22, 2017, 7:39 a.m.Duration: 53 seconds
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Redressing the Balance: Gender in Shakespeare
Published: April 25, 2017, 11:28 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 59 seconds
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Tamsin Greig on Twelfth Night
Published: March 30, 2017, 12:03 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 32 seconds
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Simon Godwin on Twelfth Night
Published: March 29, 2017, 10:11 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 9 seconds
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My Country: Rufus Norris and Padraig Cusack
Published: March 23, 2017, 4:56 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 4 seconds
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Improbable on Lost Without Words
Published: March 17, 2017, 5:28 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 16 seconds
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Ugly Lies The Bone: Ferrentino and Rubasingham
Published: March 10, 2017, 3:49 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds
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Denzel Washington on Fences
Published: March 2, 2017, 10:34 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 28 seconds
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Ruth Wilson on Hedda Gabler
Published: Feb. 21, 2017, 12:14 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 58 seconds
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Ivo van Hove and Patrick Marber on Hedda Gabler
Published: Feb. 8, 2017, 4:44 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 49 seconds
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Lucian Msamati on Amadeus
Published: Jan. 18, 2017, 3:36 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 9 seconds
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Alexander Zeldin on LOVE
Published: Jan. 11, 2017, 2:41 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 11 seconds
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Private Eye: A Review of 2016
Published: Dec. 20, 2016, 3:22 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 seconds
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Alan Bennett: Keeping On Keeping On
Published: Dec. 15, 2016, 10:17 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 33 seconds
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A Poem For Every Night Of The Year
Published: Dec. 8, 2016, 11:06 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 48 seconds
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Michael Longhurst on Amadeus
Published: Dec. 1, 2016, 1:34 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 52 seconds
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David Hare and John Simenon on The Red Barn
Published: Nov. 28, 2016, 2:43 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds
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A Pacifist's Guide To The War On Cancer: Bryony Kimmings
Published: Nov. 10, 2016, 5:16 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds
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NT: 40 Years as a Space for Plays
Published: Oct. 28, 2016, 2:43 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 11 seconds
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Alexander Technique in the Theatre
Published: Oct. 17, 2016, 3:24 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 55 seconds
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Sean O'Casey by his Daughter
Published: Sept. 29, 2016, 9:10 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 33 seconds
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Jonathan Kent on Young Chekhov
Published: Sept. 21, 2016, 4:31 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 32 seconds
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Helen McCrory on The Deep Blue Sea
Published: Sept. 16, 2016, 10:16 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 11 seconds
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Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour: Vicky Featherstone and Lee Hall
Published: Sept. 8, 2016, 9:36 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds
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Another World: Islamic State Discussion (part 3/3)
Published: May 9, 2016, 1:01 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 24 seconds
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Another World: Islamic State Discussion (part 2/3)
Published: May 9, 2016, 1 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 7 seconds
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Shakespeare: Writer for Today
Published: April 27, 2016, 4:02 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 40 seconds
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Shakespeare: The 21st Century
Published: April 27, 2016, 3:47 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 40 seconds
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Shakespeare and Migration: Lenny Henry
Published: April 26, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 9 seconds
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Shakespeare and Old Age: Simon Russell Beale
Published: April 26, 2016, 4:58 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 1 second
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Another World: Islamic State Discussion
Published: April 25, 2016, 8:40 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 16 seconds
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The Solid Life of Sugar Water
Published: March 16, 2016, 11:39 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 29 seconds
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Private Eye: a review of 2015
Published: Dec. 18, 2015, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 21 seconds
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Chiwetel Ejiofor on Everyman
Published: Aug. 7, 2015, 10:31 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 37 seconds
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Ralph Fiennes on Man and Superman
Published: May 28, 2015, 3:42 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 37 seconds
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Alan Bennett in conversation: part two - audio
Published: March 20, 2015, 8:53 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 5 seconds
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Alan Bennett in conversation: part one - audio
Published: March 10, 2015, 1 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 35 seconds
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Women in Greek Theatre
Published: March 4, 2015, 3:44 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 56 seconds
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Judi Dench at the National Theatre
Published: Jan. 2, 2015, 5:34 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds
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Helen McCrory in conversation
Published: Aug. 29, 2014, 9:22 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 53 seconds
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Sam Mendes in conversation
Published: June 30, 2014, 8:55 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 50 seconds
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Michael Palin on Monty Python at Work
Published: June 13, 2014, 9:24 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 29 seconds
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Alan Ayckbourn in conversation
Published: May 23, 2014, 1:31 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds
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Talking Lear: Simon Russell Beale on King Lear
Published: Feb. 21, 2014, 4:59 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 56 seconds
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Derek Jacobi in conversation
Published: Jan. 3, 2014, 3:46 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 23 seconds
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Anne-Marie Duff in conversation
Published: July 17, 2013, 9:32 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 56 seconds
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Alan Bennett reads his introduction to People
Published: July 11, 2013, 12:56 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 11 seconds
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Adrian Lester in conversation
Published: July 2, 2013, 10:45 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 19 seconds
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Peter Brook in conversation
Published: May 14, 2013, 11:29 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 31 seconds
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Simon Russell Beale in conversation
Published: Oct. 30, 2012, 10:51 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 24 seconds
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Antony Sher in conversation
Published: Aug. 22, 2012, 3:37 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 24 seconds
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Alan Bennett and Judi Dench perform a short radio play
Published: Aug. 14, 2012, 10:52 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 48 seconds
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Rory Kinnear - Talking Shakespeare
Published: Aug. 14, 2012, 10:50 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 24 seconds
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Arthur Miller reads from his log of Death of a Salesman in Beijing
Published: Aug. 13, 2012, 4:57 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 15 seconds
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In conversation with James Corden
Published: Aug. 10, 2012, 1:27 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 15 seconds
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Private Eye at 50 years - for iPod/iPhone
Published: Dec. 13, 2011, 2:54 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 10 seconds
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