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)
Don Warrington
(Ignatius Sancho)
Timothy West
(Henry Mayhew)
Danielle Rees
(Charlie Meyer)
John Simm
(Friedrich Engels)
Harriet Walter
(Virginia Woolf)
Anton Lesser
(Charles Dickens)
Philip Madoc
(Geoffrey of Monmouth)
Tim Pigott-Smith
(John Evelyn)
Amanda Root
(Charlotte Bronte)