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How Miranda Hart joined Call the Midwife

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

Antonia Fraser on books, reading and becoming a writer

Tenor Ian Bostridge on inspirational pictures and hurdy-gurdy music

Women's liberation: William Banks-Blaney on how Coco Chanel used men's underwear

Sandi Toksvig on the great women of history

Anne Enright: It's nice to come home to a country I recognise

Robert Macfarlane on an extraordinary coincidence

Halcyon Halston days: William Banks-Blaney on the first super-designer

Neil Gaiman: Why illustrators need to be good readers

Tom Holland: The challenge of writing about periods before the modern novel