Peter Ackroyd

Himself - Presenter

Jim Carter

Henry Fielding

Derek Jacobi

Tacitus

Michael Feast

Christopher Wren

Alex Jennings

Stephen Spender

Tom Hollander

T.S. Eliot

Chris Langham

Ned Ward

Philip Jackson

Samuel Pepys

Toby Stephens

Casanova

Ronan Vibert

Joseph Conrad

John Woodvine

Henry Moore

Jack Shepherd

Thomas de Quincey