cast
- Peter Ackroyd Himself - Presenter
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Jim Carter
Henry Fielding
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Derek Jacobi
Tacitus
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Michael Feast
Christopher Wren
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Alex Jennings
Stephen Spender
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Tom Hollander
T.S. Eliot
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Chris Langham
Ned Ward
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Philip Jackson
Samuel Pepys
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Toby Stephens
Casanova
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Ronan Vibert
Joseph Conrad
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John Woodvine
Henry Moore
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Jack Shepherd
Thomas de Quincey
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Don Warrington
Ignatius Sancho
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Timothy West
Henry Mayhew
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Danielle Rees
Charlie Meyer
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John Simm
Friedrich Engels
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Harriet Walter
Virginia Woolf
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Anton Lesser
Charles Dickens
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Philip Madoc
Geoffrey of Monmouth
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Tim Pigott-Smith
John Evelyn
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Amanda Root
Charlotte Bronte