Jon Ronson on the Stanford prison experiment

Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction

Sandi Toksvig: My father was fantastically famous

Sandi Toksvig on the great women of history

Germaine Greer on The Female Eunuch

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

Silk, sass and shimmer: William Banks-Blaney on Coco Chanel

Courrèges of his convictions: William Banks-Blaney on the French Space Age designer

Stephen Fry on Francis Bacon and his 'little man'

Stephen Fry on the Queen Mother's new television

Ben & David Crystal's A-Z of Shakespeare

Kazuo Ishiguro on remembering and forgetting in The Buried Giant

Andrew O'Hagan reads a passage about a firefight in Helmand Province

Alan Bennett to the reluctant rescue