Mary Beard and her guests at the Hay Festival - Simon Schama, David Olusoga and Ella Whelan - discuss what is ‘unsayable' in today's society.
As anticipation mounts around the publication of David Cameron's memoir, Mary Beard, Germaine Greer, Sathnam Sanghera and Peter Hitchens discuss the art of the memoir.
Mary Beard and her panel - Shahidha Bari, Scarlett Curtis and Ella Whelan - discuss how writers and artists are responding to anxiety in contemporary culture.
Mary Beard talks to novelist Margaret Atwood about her career and her sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.
Mary Beard and her panel discuss whether today's satirists are up to the job of lampooning contemporary politics and society. Are politicians fair game as targets for satirists?
