Frank Cottrell Boyce reads from The Astounding Broccoli Boy

Sheila Hancock on the importance of the arts

Sheila Hancock: John was more like The Sweeney than Morse

Sheila Hancock on idealism

Germaine Greer: My best book

Will Smith on working with Armando Iannucci

Kazuo Ishiguro on remembering and forgetting in The Buried Giant

The Mozart Question: Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro

Frank Cottrell Boyce's first day at school

Simon Schama on the ongoing problems faced by the Jewish people

Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty

Yuval Noah Harari: Why money is the most successful story ever told

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

Alex Salmond on joining the SNP while at university