Stephen Fry on Francis Bacon and his 'little man'

Simon Schama on the ongoing problems faced by the Jewish people

Simon Schama on Germany's historical relationship with the Jews

Sandi Toksvig on the need for equal representation for women

Oxfam's Mark Goldring calls for a new Magna Carta

Germaine Greer: My best book

Germaine Greer on The Female Eunuch

Meera Syal on The House of Hidden Mothers

Dan and Peter Snow: Introduction to Waterloo

David Mitchell: I'm a fake novelist

The Mozart Question: Michael Morpurgo, Daniel Pioro and the Storyteller's Ensemble

The Mozart Question: Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro

Nigel Kennedy on The Four Seasons

How Miranda Hart joined Call the Midwife

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

Celia Imrie on the importance of being bored

Terry Waite on the book he received from a sympathetic guard

Terry Waite on finding humour in the darkest of places

Alex Salmond: How the Scottish referendum empowered people

Alex Salmond on joining the SNP while at university

Robert Macfarlane on an extraordinary coincidence

Helen Macdonald: I started to dream of goshawks

Vikram Seth reads his moving poem, Caged

Antonia Fraser on books, reading and becoming a writer

Will Smith on working with Armando Iannucci

Steve Punt & Will Smith: 'Coming out' as comedians

Neil Gaiman's favourite memory of Terry Pratchett

Marcus Brigstocke's poem on climate change

Ben & David Crystal's A-Z of Shakespeare

Neil Gaiman: Why illustrators need to be good readers

Neil Gaiman reveals the real story of Sleeping Beauty

Neil Gaiman's dark secret: A biography of Duran Duran

Women's liberation: William Banks-Blaney on how Coco Chanel used men's underwear

William Banks-Blaney on Elizabeth Taylor at Studio 54

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

Courrèges of his convictions: William Banks-Blaney on the French Space Age designer

Silk, sass and shimmer: William Banks-Blaney on Coco Chanel

Alan Bennett to the reluctant rescue

Alan Bennett: The poor don't get much of a look in

Rose Tremain's brush with Royalty

Rose Tremain on The American Lover

Mary Portas on growing up on the high street

Anne Enright: It's nice to come home to a country I recognise

Frank Cottrell Boyce reads from The Astounding Broccoli Boy

Frank Cottrell Boyce's first day at school

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

John Boyne on why Bruno reads Treasure Island

Jon Ronson on 'mutual grooming'

Jon Ronson on the Stanford prison experiment

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

Sandi Toksvig on the great women of history

Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction

Sandi Toksvig: My father was fantastically famous

Sheila Hancock: John was more like The Sweeney than Morse

Sheila Hancock on the importance of the arts

Sheila Hancock on idealism

Tom Holland: De-radicalising Muhammad

Bettany Hughes reads from The King Must Die

Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel

Tom Holland: The challenge of writing about periods before the modern novel

Germaine Greer: Lady Macbeth is an emptyhead

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

Germaine Greer: If the English are sane it's because their national playwright is Shakespeare

Karen Armstrong: Freedom was only for selected privileged Europeans

Kazuo Ishiguro on remembering and forgetting in The Buried Giant

Yuval Noah Harari: Why money is the most successful story ever told

Celebrating difference: Andrew Solomon on parents of exceptional children

James Rhodes' guide to love

James Rhodes on the first time he met Stephen Fry

Tenor Ian Bostridge on inspirational pictures and hurdy-gurdy music

Irvine Welsh on 'Juice' Terry Lawson from A Decent Ride

Stephen Fry on an unexpected Royal visit

Stephen Fry on the Queen Mother's new television

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

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

Cressida Cowell: You can be a writer

Cressida Cowell: Could dragons be real?

Cressida Cowell on maps and the writer's imagination

BBC Arts at Hay 2015