Fiona Sampson chooses a favourite, female fictional character, Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, and ponders the lessons we all could learn from her. Recorded at the Hay Festival. Show more

Francesca Rhydderch chooses a favourite, female fictional character - Virginia Woolf's Orlando - and ponders the lessons we could all learn from her. Recorded at the Hay Festival. Show more

Poet Mab Jones chooses a favourite female fictional character, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and considers the lessons we all could learn from her. Recorded at the Hay Festival. Show more

Afua Hirsch on her favourite female fictional character, Maggie Tulliver, the hero from George Elliot's novel, Mill on the Floss, and extracts the lessons we could learn from her. Show more

Historian Bettany Hughes chooses Helen of Tory as her favourite female literary character - extracting the lessons we all could learn from her. Recorded at the Hay Festival 2018. Show more