The perennial playwright reflects on his career with Nicholas Hytner, discussing work from 1991 to the present day.

Alan Bennett joins Nicholas Hytner to discuss his earliest work, their many collaborations and Bennett's illustrious career as a playwright.

From the remnants of monarchy to Communism, democracy, war and the EU: Croatia 1945–2011. The Kos family argue, adapt, fall in and out of love. Tena Štivičić talks to Susannah Tresilian about 3 Winters, her new play for the National Theatre directed by Howard Davies. http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/3-winters #3Winters

Alan Ayckbourn talks to Angus MacKechnie about his career, focusing on his work at the National Theatre whilst Peter Hall was Artistic Director and his recently revived play A Small Family Business.

Playwright Polly Stenham talks to Emma Freud about her career, her work at at the Royal Court and her new play Hotel playing at the National Theatre. This is a recording of a live Platform event from June 2014.

Tony award-winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang talks to Mark Shenton about Yellow Face, which questions what race really means in our society. Yellow Face plays until 24 May: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/yellow-face This is a recording of a live Platform event from May 2014.

Playwright Howard Barker talks to Mark Brown about his career and the National Theatre's 2012 production of Scenes From an Execution.

Stephen Beresford talks to Matt Wolf about his career and The Last of the Haussmans, his playwriting debut at the National Theatre. This is a recording of a Platform event from August 2012.

Enda Walsh discusses his play Misterman, fresh from its New York run, with Dan Rebellato.

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. Taken from the National Theatre Archive of Platform events.

Taken from the National Theatre Archive of Platform events. In 1995 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 that event.