John Boyne on why Bruno reads Treasure Island

John Boyne: The first review called it a novel of blush-making vulgarity

James Rhodes on the first time he met Stephen Fry

Helen Macdonald: I started to dream of goshawks

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

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

Andrew O'Hagan reads a passage about a firefight in Helmand Province

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

Ben & David Crystal's A-Z of Shakespeare

Marcus Brigstocke's poem on climate change

Karen Armstrong: Freedom was only for selected privileged Europeans