NT Talks

Julie Walters is interviewed by Al Senter about her current role in The Last of the Haussmans and her acting career.

Christopher Eccleston talks to Al Senter about his recent role in Antigone as well as his stage, film and television career. This is a live recording of a Platform event from July 2012.

Director Marianne Elliott talks about this new stage adaptation of Mark Haddon's award-winning novel. This is a live recording from a Platform event from August 2012.

Taken from the National Theatre's archive of Platform event, Alan Bennett invited Judi Dench to perform a short radio play with him in front of a live audience at the National Theatre. This is an audio recording of a live event from 1995.

Rory Kinnear talks to Matt Wolf about his approach to playing the historic part of Hamlet in Nicholas Hytner's production and of the process behind creating his version of the role. This is a Platform event from January 2011.

Danny Boyle and Nick Dear talk to Christopher Frayling about adapting Frankenstein for the stage.

Arthur Miller's plays, The Crucible, All My Sons, A View from the Bridge and Death of a Salesman, have been embraced all around the world. His work embodies the public issues of his day, translating them into terms of the private conscience. In this audio podcast from 1984 Arthur Miller reads from his log of Death of a Salesman in Beijing to a live audience at the National Theatre. This has been taken from the National Theatre Archive.

Taken from the National Theatre Archive of Platform events, this is a 2004 conversation between Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, and Dr Roan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury about religious education and the representation of religion in drama and entertainment. This is a recording of a live Platform event.

To celebrate 50 years of Private Eye, Ian Hislop takes a satirical look at the events and people of 2011, with Craig Brown, Harry Enfield, Lewis MacLeod, Jan Ravens and John Sessions.

An interview from June 2011 with James Corden about his current role in One Man, Two Guvnors and his career in theatre and television. This is a recording of a live Platform event from June 2011.

The actor, whose work includes To the Manor Born and The Rivals, reflects on his acting career which is the topic of his new book, Behind the Curtain.

In memory of one of Britain's greatest writers and performers who passed away this week the National Theatre have dug this gem of an interview out of the archive. Terry Wogan interviews Eric Sykes for a platform event in 2006. With warmth and wit, he discusses his extraordinary life working alongside a generation of legendary comedians and entertainers. Please note this is an archival recording and therefore the sound quality is poor.

The writer Alecky Blythe, composer Adam Cork and director Rufus Norris discuss their award winning work, London Road, with Dan Rebellato.

In her book, Not Hamlet: Meditations on the Frail Position of Women in Drama, the actress Janet Suzman examines some of the seminal classical roles she has played and questions the impact these roles have on today's audience. Here she is interviewed by Michael Dobson about the book.

In Just Send Me Word, the historian Orlando Figes recounts the true love story of two young Muscovites, whose smuggled letters to one another form a detailed and agonizing account of life in Stalin’s Soviet Union. Orlando Figes talks to Stephanie Merritt and introduces a selection of the letters read by Jacqueline Defferary and Alex Jennings from the cast of Collaborators.