Frank Cottrell Boyce's first day at school

The Lady in the Van: Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner in conversation

Alan Bennett: The poor don't get much of a look in

Alan Bennett to the reluctant rescue

Germaine Greer: Lady Macbeth is an emptyhead

James Rhodes on the first time he met Stephen Fry

Oxfam's Mark Goldring calls for a new Magna Carta

Halcyon Halston days: William Banks-Blaney on the first super-designer

Simon Schama on the ongoing problems faced by the Jewish people

Steve Punt & Will Smith: 'Coming out' as comedians

Neil Gaiman: Why illustrators need to be good readers

Terry Waite on the book he received from a sympathetic guard

Pippa Harris: Some of our younger crew hadn't realised it was illegal to be gay

Ben & David Crystal's A-Z of Shakespeare