Frank Cottrell Boyce reads from The Astounding Broccoli Boy

Mary Portas on growing up on the high street

Kazuo Ishiguro on remembering and forgetting in The Buried Giant

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

Steve Punt & Will Smith: 'Coming out' as comedians

Oxfam's Mark Goldring calls for a new Magna Carta

How Miranda Hart joined Call the Midwife

Helen Macdonald: I started to dream of goshawks

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

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

Stephen Fry on Francis Bacon and his 'little man'

Sheila Hancock: John was more like The Sweeney than Morse