Antonia Fraser on books, reading and becoming a writer

Frank Cottrell Boyce reads from The Astounding Broccoli Boy

Frank Cottrell Boyce's first day at school

Alex Salmond: How the Scottish referendum empowered people

Jon Ronson on the Stanford prison experiment

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

Sheila Hancock: John was more like The Sweeney than Morse

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

Terry Waite on finding humour in the darkest of places

Robert Macfarlane on an extraordinary coincidence

William Banks-Blaney on Elizabeth Taylor at Studio 54

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

Mary Portas on growing up on the high street