Alan Bennett to the reluctant rescue

Jenny Agutter: I saw a beautifully crafted character

How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood

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

How Miranda Hart joined Call the Midwife

Sheila Hancock: John was more like The Sweeney than Morse

Jon Ronson on 'mutual grooming'

Marcus Brigstocke's poem on climate change

Dan and Peter Snow: Introduction to Waterloo

Alex Salmond: How the Scottish referendum empowered people

Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty

Andrew O'Hagan on drawing inspiration from life for The Illuminations

Ben & David Crystal's A-Z of Shakespeare

Germaine Greer: Lady Macbeth is an emptyhead

Elderly sex: Germaine Greer on the romance between Cleopatra and Antony