Simon Callow, Orson Welles's biographer, tracks his transformation from schoolboy to prodigy and explains what happened during the six months Welles spent at Dublin's Gate Theatre. Show more
Film-maker Kevin Jackson discusses Welles's Shaksepearean trilogy of films: Macbeth, Othello and Chimes at Midnight, which was based on the character of Sir John Falstaff. Show more
Academic Sarah Churchwell discusses film-maker Orson Welles's capacity for self-mythologising and how he compares with fiction's great dissembler, Jay Gatsby. Show more
Critic David Thomson explores film-maker Orson Welles's complicated relationship with failure. His career was marked by many lost and half-finished projects. Show more
