Acting
Desert Island Discs. Luise Rainer. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is actress Luise Rainer
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Eileen Atkins. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is actress Eileen Atkins
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Nicole Kidman. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is actress Nicole Kidman
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. Acting in the Dark. Audio, 4 minutes
An actor describes a show in which cast members cannot see each other
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. Auditions. Audio, 4 minutes
It's not a memory test. It's more a test of what someone is able to do"
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Audio, 4 minutes
Phyllida Lloyd on the tale of an Edinburgh schoolteacher who holds her pupils in thrall
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Judi Dench. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is actor Judi Dench
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. Cause Célèbre. Audio, 4 minutes
Amanda Harris talks about her role as Alma Rattenbury in Terence Rattigan's Cause Célèbre
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. Play Not Known. Audio, 4 minutes
Norman Rodway talks about his character Alfred, a foreign secretary
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. The Front Page. Audio, 4 minutes
Actor Alun Armstrong discusses his character, an editor at the Chicago Examiner
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Glenda Jackson MP. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is transport minister Glenda Jackson
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. Little Eyolf. Audio, 4 minutes
Joanne Pearce on being Rita Allmers in Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. Pierce Brosnan on Being James Bond. Audio, 4 minutes
"He can't be the Bond we had in the '60s... but he does like women enormously"
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. An Enemy of The People. Audio, 4 minutes
Ian McKellen talks about playing Dr Tomas Stockmann in the play by Henrik Ibsen
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. Brief Lives. Audio, 4 minutes
Michael Williams plays John Aubrey, a diarist/gossip living in the 17th Century
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. The Herbal Bed. Audio, 4 minutes
"She's a free-thinking spirit" Kate Duchêne on playing Shakespeare's daughter, Susanna
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. Damn Yankees. Audio, 4 minutes
Joe Boyd sells his soul to the devil for becoming the world's greatest baseball player
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. Marlene. Audio, 4 minutes
Siân Phillips talks about playing Marlene Dietrich in Pam Gems's play Marlene
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. Way Upstream. Audio, 4 minutes
Russell Dixon who is starring in the Alan Ayckbourn play Way Upstream talks about the play
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Sian Phillips. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is actor Sian Phillips
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. A Very Rare Bird Indeed. Audio, 4 minutes
Actress Judi Dench discusses her latest role in Peter Tinniswood's A Very Rare Bird Indeed
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Saeed Jaffrey. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is actor Saeed Jaffrey
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. Maureen Lipman. Audio, 4 minutes
Her one woman show, being in Blithe Spirit and the roles she likes playing
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Unavailable