Frank Cottrell Boyce's first day at school

Germaine Greer: If the English are sane it's because their national playwright is Shakespeare

Elderly sex: Germaine Greer on the romance between Cleopatra and Antony

Germaine Greer: Lady Macbeth is an emptyhead

James Rhodes on the first time he met Stephen Fry

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

Jon Ronson: Can I interview you about your special brain anomaly?

Helen Macdonald: I started to dream of goshawks

David Mitchell: I'm a fake novelist

John Boyne: The first review called it a novel of blush-making vulgarity

Karen Armstrong: Freedom was only for selected privileged Europeans

Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel

Robert Macfarlane on an extraordinary coincidence

Nigel Kennedy on The Four Seasons