Alex Salmond on joining the SNP while at university

Alex Salmond: How the Scottish referendum empowered people

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Celia Imrie on the importance of being bored

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

David Mitchell: I'm a fake novelist

Rose Tremain on The American Lover

Vikram Seth reads his moving poem, Caged

Jon Ronson on 'mutual grooming'

Meera Syal on The House of Hidden Mothers

Stephen Fry on an unexpected Royal visit

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